Henry David ThoreauThough I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonde… ▶371Hope
Henry David ThoreauI have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.371Time
Henry David ThoreauHeaven might be defined as the place which men avoid. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau, p.… ▶371Reading
Henry David ThoreauBy avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is d… ▶371Philosophy
Henry David ThoreauOld deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2015). Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary, p.4, 谷月社371DeathHumanity
Henry David ThoreauSo behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your de… ▶371DeathHumanityReading
Henry David ThoreauWaves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2006). Thoreau and the Art of Life: … ▶371LifeTime
Henry David ThoreauIn a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). Miscellanies (Annotated Edition), p.10, Jazzybee Verlag361Love
Henry David ThoreauWhen will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man? ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quot… ▶372Reading
Henry David ThoreauI am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place only in communities where some have got more than is s… ▶361Life
Henry David ThoreauI sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. 361Truth
Henry David ThoreauThe finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time. ✨ Henry David T… ▶361ReadingTime
Henry David ThoreauIs the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated), p… ▶361Philosophy
Henry David ThoreauWhen I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. … ▶361Hope
Henry David ThoreauWe are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.362Truth
Henry David ThoreauLet every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.331, Penguin362Thought
Henry David ThoreauI love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different kind of right prevails. In her midst I can … ▶351HopeLovePhilosophy
Henry David ThoreauIn their daily life, all are braver than they know. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1906). Journal373Life
Henry David ThoreauI say, break the law. ✨ Civil Disobedience (1849) See Savio 1362DeathPolitics
Henry David ThoreauWe shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2006). Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles, p.61, Heron Dance … ▶373Life
Henry David ThoreauWhat is called genius is the abundance of life and health. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2015). Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World, p.10, Skyho… ▶351Life
Henry David ThoreauIt is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2006). Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts… ▶351LifeLove
Henry David ThoreauThe mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. ✨ Walden ch. 1 (1854)373Reflection
Henry David ThoreauThe rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (1942). Civil Disobedience, … ▶363Death
Henry David ThoreauThey take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.352Reflection
Henry David ThoreauOur life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity,… ▶352LifeTruth
Henry David ThoreauWho could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds. ✨ Michael Benjamin Berger, Henry David Thoreau… ▶363Hope
Henry David ThoreauAs for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some am… ▶363Truth
Henry David ThoreauRivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure… ▶363Time
Henry David ThoreauIn accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and nee… ▶352DeathPoliticsTruth
