Environment Quote by Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are…

— Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows that surround it. We need the tonic of wildness...”

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and…

— Henry David Thoreau

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse…

— Henry David Thoreau

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild; and what I have been preparing to say is, that in…

— Henry David Thoreau

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

— Henry David Thoreau

In short, all good things are wild and free. There is something in a strain of music, whether produced by an instrument or by…

— Henry David Thoreau

The wildest dreams of wild men, even, are not the less true, though they may not recommend themselves to the sense which is most…

— Henry David Thoreau