What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
HENRY DAVID THOREAUBooks must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
More Henry David Thoreau Quotes
-
-
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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 -
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
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 -
Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
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.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU -
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU