The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe 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 THOREAUA written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAs if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULife in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf you want to be happy, be!
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThat man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUPursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU