The cost of a thing is something called life which is given in exchange for it. Henry David Thoreau More Quotes by Henry David Thoreau More Quotes From Henry David Thoreau When I hear the hypercritical quarreling about grammar and style, the position of the particles, etc., etc., stretching or contracting every speaker to certain rules of theirs. I see that they forget that the first requisite and rule is that expression shall be vital and natural, as much as the voice of a brute or an interjection: first of all, mother tongue; and last of all, artificial or father tongue. Essentially your truest poetic sentence is as free and lawless as a lamb's bleat. Henry David Thoreau mother writing father A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly. Henry David Thoreau ignorance beautiful men Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Henry David Thoreau light brother men It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr Henry David Thoreau appreciate dream giving The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. Henry David Thoreau garden ocean sea The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it. Henry David Thoreau use law giving Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Henry David Thoreau men night reality Count your age with friends but not with years. Henry David Thoreau age wise years When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures. Henry David Thoreau nature sleep adventure The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though it prevents my hoeing them, it is of far more worth than my hoeing. If it should continue so long as to cause the seeds to rot in the ground and destroy the potatoes in the low lands, it would still be good for the grass on the uplands, and, being good for the grass, would be good for me, too. Henry David Thoreau nature land rain New earths, new themes expect us. Henry David Thoreau theme land earth The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Henry David Thoreau light eye darkness Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed. Henry David Thoreau records deeds writing He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application. Henry David Thoreau doe men science If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau truth giving years Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist. Henry David Thoreau live-free mist children There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember the lower levels, but when on the lower we cannot remember the higher. Henry David Thoreau levels different book But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon plowed into the soil for compost. Henry David Thoreau wisdom mistake men Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Henry David Thoreau sensitivity treats wisdom The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible. Henry David Thoreau mountain men country
