I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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The 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.
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams!
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I love to be alone.
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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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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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Life in us is like the water in a river.
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A 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.
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