Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Renew thyself completely each day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The heart is forever inexperienced.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU