An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUAn early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA truly good book teaches me better than to read it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUEvery morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUI 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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWe are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUIf we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUCould a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWhat you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUDisobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUHow many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUNot 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 THOREAULive in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAURead the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU