Thoughts about Henry David Thoreau
Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David ThoreauNature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David ThoreauThere are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David ThoreauIf the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
Henry David ThoreauHow many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
Henry David ThoreauThere never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
Henry David ThoreauWhat is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David ThoreauOnly that day dawns to which we are awake.
Henry David ThoreauTo have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David ThoreauThe savage in man is never quite eradicated.
Henry David ThoreauOld deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
Henry David ThoreauNature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David ThoreauAs 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 ThoreauI stand in awe of my body.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Henry David ThoreauDistrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
Henry David ThoreauIf you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
Henry David ThoreauMen go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
Henry David ThoreauDo not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David ThoreauThe volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
Henry David Thoreau
