The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”
HENRY DAVID THOREAUA single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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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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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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Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time.
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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 should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.
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This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
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Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
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How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
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Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!
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Wildness is the preservation of the World.
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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Simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
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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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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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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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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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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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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What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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