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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Write while the heat is in you.
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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.
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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
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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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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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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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I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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We are constantly invited to be what we are.
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Any fool can make a rule And any fool will mind it.
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