Fields Quote by Henry David Thoreau

When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon…

— Henry David Thoreau

In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly…

— Henry David Thoreau

A garden should feel like a walk in the woods.

— Dan Kiley

I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America,…

— 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

“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill. It rose…

— W.B. Yeats

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

— Mark Twain

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to…

— Mark Twain

Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles whopping, fifty…

— Bill Bryson

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a…

— Henry David Thoreau