The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I love to be alone.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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A lake is a landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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