We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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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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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.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
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