Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters? Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us? Henry David Thoreau gossip cheer littles I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. Henry David Thoreau levels common believe In order to die, you must first have lived. Henry David Thoreau dies order firsts Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent. Henry David Thoreau intermittent listening How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down? Henry David Thoreau grove cutting bird A nation may be ever so civilized and yet lack wisdom. Henry David Thoreau civilized nations may An efficient and valuable man does what he can, whether the community pay him for it or not. Henry David Thoreau community doe men My excuse for not lecturing against the use of tobacco is, that I never chewed it; that is a penalty which reformed tobacco-chewers have to pay; though there are things enough I have chewed which I could lecture against. Henry David Thoreau reform use pay I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves. Henry David Thoreau horse turtles clouds Long as I have lived, and many blasphemers as I have heard and seen, I have never yet heard or witnessed any direct and consciousblasphemy or irreverence; but of indirect and habitual, enough. Where is the man who is guilty of direct and personal insolence to Him that made him? Henry David Thoreau irreverence men long There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. Henry David Thoreau fruit cooking flower Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use. Henry David Thoreau transcendentalism use may The kind uncles and aunts of the race are more esteemed than its true spiritual fathers and mothers. Henry David Thoreau uncles spiritual mother He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer. Henry David Thoreau accomplices doers injury The sugar maple is remarkable for its clean ankle. The groves of these trees looked like vast forest sheds, their branches stopping short at a uniform height, four or five feet from the ground, like eaves, as if they had been trimmed by art, so that you could look under and through the whole grove with its leafy canopy, as under a tent whose curtain is raised. Henry David Thoreau feet tree art The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. Henry David Thoreau england lakes country The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube. Henry David Thoreau ponds change lakes A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky. Henry David Thoreau land air lakes The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of? Henry David Thoreau moose awkward long So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders. Henry David Thoreau land sailor discovery
