The universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe universe is wider than our views of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUYou must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDo not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAULive the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAny fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU