Companionship Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

— Jeremiah

One thought that occurs to me is that men will continue to withdraw from nature in order to create an environment that will suit…

— Isaac Asimov

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

— Jonathan Swift

Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and…

— Anonymous

For this is the journey that men and women make, to find themselves. If they fail in this, it doesn't matter much else what…

— James A. Michener

Most men who have really lived have had, in some share, their great adventure. This railway is mine.

— James J. Hill

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone…

— Maria Mitchell

Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they…

— Henry David Thoreau

Most men fail, not through lack of education or agreeable personal qualities, but from lack of dogged determination, from lack of dauntless will.

— Orison Swett Marden

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's…

— Henry David Thoreau

After a lifetime of nature shows and magazine photos, we arrive at the woods conditioned to expect splendor - surprised when the parking lot…

— Bill McKibben

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky