Quotes about Thoreau

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Things do not change — we change.
It is not enough to be industrious — so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my sti — Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. — Daniel J. Rice, THIS SIDE OF A WILDERNESS: A Novel
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau
Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'... — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance — they make the latitudes and longitudes.
This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to p — Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye — looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw two men sawing d — Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861
The endless ocean was his sole companion , and on some deeply sentimental level, it seemed sufficient. Almost apt. He al — Adelheid Manefeldt, Consequence
There is no remedy for love but to love more."- Henry David Thoreau — Henry David Thoreau
The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man. — Daniel J. Rice, This Side of a Wilderness
Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me... to try something n — Dee Williams
Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats. — Chris Matakas, My Mastery: Continued Education Through Jiu Jitsu
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest. — Henry David Thoreau
Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between west and south-sou — Phillip Connors
It's too late to be studying Hebrew — it's more important to understand even the slang of today.
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton — he who does not cannot be otherwise.
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing — but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.