“I have a room all to myself; it is nature.”

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

A written word is the choicest of relics.

Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

This world is but canvas to our imaginations.

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.

Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.

It takes two to speak the truth – one to speak and another to hear.

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.

Wildness is the preservation of the World.

Life really falls like gentle rain in june instead it tries to drown us by a sudden monsoon.

We are meant to discover our authentic nature-the state of being in which we are inspired by ourselves, turned on, lit up, and excited about who we are.

I realize that in this undertaking I place myself in a certain opposition to views widely held concerning the mathematical infinite and to opinions frequently defended on the nature of numbers.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath–and the God of Nature too. If you can’t see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

The nature of how we are as human beings is that we’re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.

Thought is cause: experience is effect. If you don’t like the effects in your life, you have to change the nature of your thinking.

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.