Corn Quote by Henry David Thoreau

I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

— Henry David Thoreau

I grew up in Batavia, Ill., a small town out in the corn fields, west of Chicago. It was boring.

— Craig Sager

I come from the Midwest, from the suburbs - growing up hanging out at the mall and looking at the corn fields across the…

— Alice Ripley

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a…

— Henry David Thoreau

“There is no scent in it so wholesome as that of the pines, nor any fragrance so penetrating and restorative as the life-everlasting in…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society…

— Henry David Thoreau

I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an…

— Henry David Thoreau

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Wenn die Gewalt zur Norm wird, passen sich die Menschen an die Norm an.”

— Blake Crouch