Afternoon Quote by Henry David Thoreau

My intellect as well as my instincts lead me to the conclusion that men have a positive yearning to be good.

— Albert Rosenfeld

It's incredible when women tell me that they've read things that I've said or have been inspired by things that I've done. To hear…

— Ariel Winter

When I came to the national camp, I wore my pads to get the feel. I started to kick the ball, then stood in…

— P. R. Sreejesh

I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost…

— Henry David Thoreau

There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded…

— Steve Toltz

And then the rose-border. What intensity in those odorous buds of the Bon Silene, making the very spirit bound as though a message had…

— Sarah Smiley

Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub while she…

— Gregory Maguire

It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs,…

— Graham Stuart Thomas

She was always puzzled that people say that darkness falls. To her it seemed instead to rise, massing under trees an shrubs, pouring out…

— Katherine Howe