I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUOur life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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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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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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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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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.
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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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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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