Attractive Quote by Henry David Thoreau

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all…

— Henry David Thoreau

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often…

— Henry David Thoreau

Could slavery suggest a more complete servility than some of these journals exhibit? Is there any dust which their conduct does not lick, and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Finnick and I sit for a long time in silence, watching the knots bloom and vanish, before I can ask, 'How do you bear…

— Suzanne Collins

I like films, but I can't sit still for very long.

— Guy Martin

When I was 23, my Norwegian relatives taught me how to sit still. During the long sunlit evenings in the summer of 1992, my…

— Hope Jahren

Some people get a Broadway show, and that's their end game, and they want to sit there for as long as possible. And some…

— Daveed Diggs

I've been working really hard, and it's been nice because you get to not sit with yourself for too long.

— Zelda Williams

“Don’t let things sit for too long. It’s always tempting to just ignore the things that aren’t actually on fire just at the moment,…

— James S.A. Corey

“People say life is short, but it's not. It's long, so damn long – ye can't help but make a mess of it. ‘Tis…

— Caimh McDonnell