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Winter Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe…
- The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.…
- We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
- "Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel,…
- One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
- The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
- Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a…
- What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
- That grand old poem called Winter
- The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy…
- In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...
- As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love…
- The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
- In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let…
- And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed…
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
- After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring in vain…
- It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing every day, who…
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
More Winter Quotes
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman
- The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. — Dave Barry
- I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food… — Brendan Behan
- Johnny Winter is one of the best blues players in the world. He's very underrated. — Ritchie Blackmore
- In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. — William Blake
- No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
- Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day. — Elizabeth Bowen
- I took four years off after 'In the Cut' because I wanted to see who I'd be without work. I even tried… — Jane Campion
- In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
- Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come. — Thomas Carlyle
- Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. — Willa Cather