If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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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I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
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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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A written word is the choicest of relics.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.
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The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
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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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I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
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