Globes Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Globes Sides Walden pond
“There is an of-quoted passage in Walden, in which Thoreau exhorts us to find our pole star and to follow it unwaveringly as would… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
But I can assure my readers that Walden has a reasonably tight bottom at a not unreasonable, though at an unusual, depth. I fathomed… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“My purpose in going to Walden Pond was not to live cheaply nor to live dearly there but to transact some private business, with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The earth itself was unchangeable, the endless tracts of sand and water and pavement. It was the people, the perturbable madmen who roamed its… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“By what seemed then and still seems a chance, the suggestion of a moment’s idle thought followed up upon familiar lines and paths that… — Arthur Machen Copy Share Image
When we have discovered a continent, or crossed a chain of mountains, it is only to find another ocean or another plain upon the… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Round the world! There is much in that sound to inspire proud feelings; but whereto does all that circumnavigation conduct? Only through numberless perils… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-southwest. The future lies that way to… — Phillip Connors Copy Share Image
“Not till we have lost the world,” wrote Thoreau, “do we begin to find ourselves.” — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland. — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“All that day he travelled, laying his course by the rounding sun. The forest seemed interminable; nowhere did he discover a break in it,… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
... how much of our inner substance is it good for us to give to public griefs? The whole modern tendency to agonize over… — Louise Bogan Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Never in all their history have men been able truly to conceive of the world as one: a single sphere, a globe, having the… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
And then he smiles, and in all the places around the globe where it's night, day breaks. — Jandy Nelson Copy Share Image
I really appreciate leaders from around the globe who have come to share in prayer with us today. It reminds me that the Almighty… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
The reality is that our military presence on foreign soil is as offensive to the people that live there as armed Chinese troops would… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The Globe reports that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il raises money by selling fake Viagra pills. What it is about this guy? None of… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're… — Jamie Bell Copy Share Image
I am never a stranger anywhere I go, and it gives me the opportunity to choose my habitat by literally throwing a dart at… — Dean Haglund Copy Share Image
