Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
HENRY DAVID THOREAUWildness is the preservation of the World.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
Live the life you’ve imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
A written word is the choicest of relics.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Life in us is like the water in a river.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
We are constantly invited to be what we are.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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 THOREAU -
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU