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 We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending. Henry David Thoreau nature men hands The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. Henry David Thoreau nature spring years Each reader discovers for himself that, with respect to the simpler features of nature, succeeding poets have done little else than copy his similes. Henry David Thoreau nature done littles This world has many rings, like Saturn, and we live now on the outmost of them all. None can say deliberately that he inhabits thesame sphere, or is contemporary, with the flower which his hands have plucked, and though his feet may seem to crush it, inconceivable spaces and ages separate them, and perchance there is no danger that he will hurt it. Henry David Thoreau crush nature hurt Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones. Henry David Thoreau church inspirational looks Surely the fates are forever kind, though Nature's laws are more immutable than any despot's, yet to man's daily life they rarelyseem rigid, but permit him to relax with license in summer weather. He is not harshly reminded of the things he may not do. Henry David Thoreau fate nature summer Commerce is really as interesting as nature. Henry David Thoreau commerce nature interesting By what a delicate and far-stretched contribution every island is made! What an enterprise of nature thus to lay the foundations of and to build up the future continent, of golden and silver sands and the ruins of forests, with ant-like industry. Henry David Thoreau foundation nature islands By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. Henry David Thoreau allure bait nature When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet. Henry David Thoreau nature real feet We could not help being struck by the seeming, though innocent, indifference of Nature to these men's necessities, while elsewhereshe was equally serving others. Like a true benefactress, the secret of her service is unchangeableness. Thus is the busiest merchant, though within sight of his Lowell, put to pilgrim's shifts, and soon comes to staff and scrip and scallop-shell. Henry David Thoreau nature sight men The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy. Henry David Thoreau rocks nature simple As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die. Henry David Thoreau nature rain time Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of flowers, reflected in the water. But we missed the white water-lily, which is the queen of river flowers, its reign being over for this season.... Many of this species inhabit our Concord water. Henry David Thoreau queens nature flower Nature is not made after such a fashion as we would have her. We piously exaggerate her wonders, as the scenery around our home. Henry David Thoreau fashion nature home It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of this century, their happiness a regular fruit of the summer. Henry David Thoreau nature summer happiness The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions. Henry David Thoreau lasts nature civilization There is a higher law affecting our relation to pines as well as to men. A pine cut down, a dead pine, is no more a pine than a dead human carcass is a man. Henry David Thoreau cutting nature men Nature is goodness crystallized. Henry David Thoreau morality goodness nature Really to see the sun rise or go down every day, so to relate ourselves to a universal fact, would preserve us sane forever. Henry David Thoreau nature sun forever
