Wildness is the preservation of the World.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf 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.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
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If 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.
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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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The universe is wider than our views of it.
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Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
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Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
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When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
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All good things are wild and free.
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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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A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Things do not change; we change.
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Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.
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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it’s gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
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Not 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.
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I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
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It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
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