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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination — Henry David Thoreau

The nonchalance and dolce-far-niente air of nature and society hint at infinite periods in the progress of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness. — Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers. — Henry David Thoreau

How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside. — Henry David Thoreau

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F Scott Fitzgerald

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature. — Henry David Thoreau

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her! — Henry David Thoreau

Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her. — Henry David Thoreau

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me ... I milk the sky and the earth. — Henry David Thoreau

Fresh curls spring from the baldest brow. There is nothing inorganic. — Henry David Thoreau

Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport. — Henry David Thoreau

The young pines springing up in the corn-fields from year to year are to me a refreshing fact. — Henry David Thoreau

The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? — Henry David Thoreau

It is too late in the day-there are simply too many of us now-to follow Thoreau into the woods, to look to nature to somehow cure or undo culture. — Michael Pollan

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. — Henry David Thoreau

Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share. — Henry David Thoreau

I am of the nature of Stone. It takes the summer's sun to warm it. — Henry David Thoreau

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities? — Henry David Thoreau

It has come to this, that the lover of art is one, and the lover of nature another, though true art is but the expression of our love of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him. — Henry David Thoreau

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influence of the earth. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. — Henry David Thoreau

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

We need the tonic of wildness and ... nature. — Henry David Thoreau

This curious world we inhabit is more wonderful than convenient; more beautiful than it is useful; it is more to be admired and enjoyed than used. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance. — Henry David Thoreau

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. — Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature. — Henry David Thoreau

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health. — Henry David Thoreau

Cold and hunger seem more friendly to my nature than those methods which men have adopted and advise to ward them off. — Henry David Thoreau

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care. — Henry David Thoreau