Such is the never-failing beauty and accuracy of language, the most perfect art in the world; the chisel of a thousand years retouches it. Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau Simplify, simplify, simplify. Henry David Thoreau wise philosophy life Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food Henry David Thoreau philosophical animal men The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another. Henry David Thoreau dry grass beautiful You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain Henry David Thoreau cake earth sweet Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails. Henry David Thoreau wings rivers fall As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. Henry David Thoreau gourds vines men The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July. Henry David Thoreau july wine light We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Henry David Thoreau environmental railroads What I began by reading, I must finish by acting. Henry David Thoreau hints acting reading Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. Henry David Thoreau perfect men art Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them. Henry David Thoreau selling study men I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born? Henry David Thoreau eye house men The fate of the country does not depend on how you vote at the polls - the Henry David Thoreau strong morning country It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning. Henry David Thoreau ends men years Wherever men have lived, there is a story to be told Henry David Thoreau stories men Cast your whole vote, not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence. Henry David Thoreau vote influence paper When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. Henry David Thoreau music danger fear They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself. Henry David Thoreau winter spring men In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. Henry David Thoreau literature When I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money? Henry David Thoreau haste government giving
