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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
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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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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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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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