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 The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs. Henry David Thoreau burrs thrown men In their daily life, all are braver than they know. Henry David Thoreau daily-life knows If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you. Henry David Thoreau graves song trying As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend. Henry David Thoreau summer winter morning Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable. Henry David Thoreau grateful mean reality The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter Henry David Thoreau fire summer winter Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature. Henry David Thoreau vastness appreciate lost How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge? Henry David Thoreau growth ignorance use How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! Henry David Thoreau nature important intellectual It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at. Henry David Thoreau important enough jobs Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press. Henry David Thoreau apples wine sweet Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits. Henry David Thoreau office kindness best-friend We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. Henry David Thoreau influence change inspirational It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone. Henry David Thoreau ocean men boys The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed. Henry David Thoreau stars men night If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point. Henry David Thoreau nature law art The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. Henry David Thoreau imagination giving art A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince. Henry David Thoreau simplicity independent simple Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up. Henry David Thoreau institutions truth spring As a man thinks of himself, so he is. Henry David Thoreau men thinking
