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 A man must find his occasions in himself, it is true. The natural day is very calm, and will hardly reprove his indolence. Henry David Thoreau leisure action men To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions. Henry David Thoreau independence spirit action What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws! Henry David Thoreau law time long It must be confessed that horses at present work too exclusively for men, rarely men for horses; and the brute degenerates in man's society. Henry David Thoreau horse humanity men Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way. Henry David Thoreau horse men moving The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke. Henry David Thoreau hunters white rain It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose. Henry David Thoreau woods forests night It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time. Henry David Thoreau woods memorable forests It is now many years that men have resorted to the forest for fuel and the materials of the arts: the New Englander and the New Hollander, the Parisian and the Celt, the farmer and Robin Hood, Goody Blake and Harry Gill; in most parts of the world, the prince and the peasant, the scholar and the savage, equally require still a few sticks from the forest to warm them and cook their food. Neither could I do without them. Henry David Thoreau men years art To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands. Henry David Thoreau men mean hands Continued traveling is far from productive. It begins with wearing away the soles of the shoes, and making the feet sore, and erelong it will wear a man clean up, after making his heart sore into the bargain. I have observed that the afterlife of those who have traveled much is very pathetic. Henry David Thoreau heart men travel I had often stood on the banks of the Concord, watching the lapse of the current, an emblem of all progress, following the same law with the system, with time, and all that is madeand at last I resolved to launch myself on its bosom and float whither it would bear me. Henry David Thoreau progress law travel He may travel who can subsist on the wild fruits and game of the most cultivated country. Henry David Thoreau games country travel He who rides and keeps the beaten track studies the fences chiefly. Henry David Thoreau track study travel At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. Henry David Thoreau dance play travel Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way. Henry David Thoreau land long travel I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off. Henry David Thoreau home world travel I am very little of a traveler. Henry David Thoreau traveler littles travel What is the use of going right over the old track again? There is an adder in the path which your own feet have worn. You must make tracks into the Unknown. Henry David Thoreau track feet travel I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first. Henry David Thoreau travel moving thinking
