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He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. — Henry David Thoreau

The imagination, give it the least license, dives deeper and soars higher than Nature goes. — Henry David Thoreau

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times. — Henry David Thoreau

The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature is goodness crystallized. — Henry David Thoreau

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — 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

With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before. — Henry David Thoreau

How meanly and grossly do we deal with nature! — 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

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

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

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Wildness is the preservation of the World. — 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

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla. — Henry David Thoreau

In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it. — Henry David Thoreau

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. — Henry David Thoreau

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

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. — Henry David Thoreau

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father. — Henry David Thoreau

There is a low mist in the woods
It is a good day to study lichens. — Henry David Thoreau

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 is a personality so vast and universal that we have never seen one of her features. — Henry David Thoreau

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? — Henry David Thoreau

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

Grow wild according to thy nature. — Henry David Thoreau

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

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

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything. — Henry David Thoreau

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted. — Henry David Thoreau

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. — Daniel J. Rice

There should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process. — 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

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man. — Henry David Thoreau

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. — Henry David Thoreau

We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. — Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain. — Henry David Thoreau

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain. — Henry David Thoreau

Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing. — Henry David Thoreau

I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me. — Henry David Thoreau

All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state. — Henry David Thoreau

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve. — 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

Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. — Henry David Thoreau

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each. — 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

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

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

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

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. — Henry David Thoreau

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. — Henry David Thoreau

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau

As I love nature, as I love singing birds ... I love thee, my friend. — Henry David Thoreau

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it. — Henry David Thoreau

Commerce is really as interesting as nature. — Henry David Thoreau

My profession is to always find God in nature. — Henry David Thoreau

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

Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature abhors repetition — Henry David Thoreau

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak. — Henry David Thoreau

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages. — Henry David Thoreau

By one bait or another, Nature allures inhabitants into all her recesses. — Henry David Thoreau

One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'... — Michael Finkel

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. — Henry David Thoreau

I have a room all to myself; it is nature. — 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

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