Expectations Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Expectations Hope Inspirational Love Nature
We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature has her own best mode of doing each thing, and she has somewhere told it plainly, if we will keep our eyes and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity. — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nature always springs to the surface and manages to show what she is. It is vain to stop or try to drive her back.… — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux Copy Share Image
The more that we gather at the seasonal tides of Nature, the more we become like Nature. When we become like Her it is… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
Nature, after all, is not so poor that she requires constant improvement — Albert Renger-Patzsch 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
Balance suggests a perfect equilibrium. There is no such thing. That is a false expectation.... There are going to be priorities and dimensions of… — Denise Morrison Copy Share Image
My mom had very low expectations for me, and she really had a point. I was a big problem at seventeen. If I had… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
I say this all the time: I've always been really good at managing my expectations so that I'm not let down. — Brett Young Copy Share Image
When Allah puts barakah (His blessings) in something, it will come beyond your expectations- never underestimate the power of one good deed. — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
I recognize I am essentially a failed human being in the sense that I can't possibly live up to the expectations of an Almighty. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
“Does your reality match your expectations? If not it's time to change either your expectations or your reality.” — Steven Redhead Copy Share Image
Jesus' kingdom was not like the popular expectation. He used the phrase 'kingdom of God' with a different meaning. His kingdom was not of… — Tom Harpur Copy Share Image
Disappointment contains an appointment for doing much better. High expectations mean your higher capacity and belief in abilities. — Tasneem Hameed Copy Share Image