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 Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us. Henry David Thoreau history Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye. Henry David Thoreau gnarly apples eye From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit. Henry David Thoreau apples appreciate men What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then! Henry David Thoreau apples healthy doors The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close. Henry David Thoreau flower should bees All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it. Henry David Thoreau distance eye interesting We must have infinite faith in each other. Henry David Thoreau infinite Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy. Henry David Thoreau generosity joy men Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts. Henry David Thoreau associates The question is whether you can bear freedom. At present the vast majority of men, whether white or black, require the discipline of labor which enslaves them for their own good. Henry David Thoreau freedom white men I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend. Henry David Thoreau worthy friendship men I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually. Henry David Thoreau hate use friendship There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends. Henry David Thoreau had-enough enough friendship When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Even some sects of philosophers have felt the necessity of importing the woods to themselves, since they did not go to the woods. They planted groves and walks of Plantanes, where they took subdiales ambulationes in porticos open to the air. Of course, it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. Henry David Thoreau garden use air Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I expect ever to see. A single farmhouse which I had not seen before is sometimes as good as the dominions of the King of Dahomey. Henry David Thoreau kings two country Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last. Henry David Thoreau lasts use forever There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense. Henry David Thoreau no-common-sense common-sense common Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted. Henry David Thoreau soil exhausted world Sphere Music - Some sounds seem to reverberate along the plain, and then settle to earth again like dust; such are Noise, Discord, Jargon. But such only as spring heavenward, and I may catch from steeples and hilltops in their upward course, which are the more refined parts of the former, are the true sphere music - pure, unmixed music - in which no wail mingles. Henry David Thoreau dust sound spring The vessel, though her masts be firm,Beneath her copper bears a worm. Henry David Thoreau copper worms bears
