The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
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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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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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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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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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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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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Things do not change; we change.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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