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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 woodsIt 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
