David thoreau Quote by Fumio Sasaki

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Thoreau’s writings feel more alive to me than any thing that I’ve ever read. When I read anything by Thoreau, I see his subject.…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“Henry David Thoreau (who wrote, “I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest…

— Greg McKeown

“It's hard to explain, but it's related to me know that for every moment of beauty this place gives me, I probably miss a…

— Kirsty Eagar

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. HENRY DAVID THOREAU”

— Stephen R. Covey

I shall write something beautiful, profound… I have of late, yet wherfore I know not… Wait…that is Shakespeare…ummm… I know… I went to the…

— Eric Nickel

“Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than…

— Elizabeth von Arnim

“I often feel happier, after putting down some of my own experiences [in my journal], than I do in reading much. Novels, even if…

— Abigail May Alcott

“Walden is the report of a man torn by two powerful and opposing drives – the desire to enjoy the world and the urge…

— E.B. White

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.

— Edward Carpenter

“...Not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I am not able, and I do not want, completely to abandon the world-view that I acquired in childhood. So long as I remain…

— George Orwell