What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHeaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURenew thyself completely each day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIt takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUTake 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 THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUSimplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOnly that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUGo confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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 THOREAUI was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEnthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU