I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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I love to be alone.
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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 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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All good things are wild and free.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
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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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To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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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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Write while the heat is in you.
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