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 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 Nature is mythical and mystical always, and works with the license and extravagance of genius. She has her luxurious and florid style as well as art. Henry David Thoreau style nature art In society you will not find health, but in nature. Unless our feet at least stood in the midst of nature, all our faces would bepale and livid. Society is always diseased, and the best is the most so. Henry David Thoreau society nature feet How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws. Henry David Thoreau progress nature law How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature! Henry David Thoreau deals nature Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here. Henry David Thoreau swamps nature art For my own part, I commonly attend more to nature than to man, but any affecting human event may blind our eyes to natural objects. I was so absorbed in him as to be surprised whenever I detected the routine of the natural world surviving still, or met persons going about their affairs indifferent. Henry David Thoreau nature eye men Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. Henry David Thoreau nature sports funny Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still. Henry David Thoreau nature sweet men I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves. Henry David Thoreau nature earth men For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men? Henry David Thoreau nature men civilization In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature. Henry David Thoreau nature eye men Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows. Henry David Thoreau nature flower men A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him. Henry David Thoreau nature race men When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall? Henry David Thoreau woods garden nature The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck. Henry David Thoreau health nature men However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are cast more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it. Henry David Thoreau fate destiny men But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions. Henry David Thoreau unconcerned morality action Let things alone; let them weigh what they will; let them soar or fall. Henry David Thoreau action patience fall We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being. Henry David Thoreau existence action
