Henry David Thoreau on nature
“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I make myself rich by making my wants few.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If you want to be happy, be!
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau I love to be alone.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Renew thyself completely each day.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Henry David ThoreauHenry David Thoreau The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live, and have feeling.
Carl LinnaeusCarl Linnaeus There are a lot of things happening that show us that this, right now, is a time to love.
Stevie WonderStevie Wonder I’m shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it’s in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Rod StewartRod Stewart You overrate my capacity of love. I don’t posess half the warmth of nature you believe me to have. An unprotected childhood in a cold world has beaten gentleness out of me.
Thomas HardyThomas Hardy Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray All nature wears one universal grin.
Henry FieldingHenry Fielding This is one of man’s oldest riddles. How can the independence of human volition be harmonized with the fact that we are integral parts of a universe which is subject to the rigid order of nature’s laws?
Max PlanckMax Planck Behind every cloud is another cloud.
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