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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
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
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
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
— 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 and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
— Henry David Thoreau
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
— Henry David Thoreau
The poet is blithe and cheery ever, and as well as nature.
— 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
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
Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
— Henry David Thoreau
I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...
— Michael Finkel
I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.
— 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
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
— 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
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
— Henry David Thoreau
We need the tonic of wildness and ... nature.
— 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
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
To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
— 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
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.
— 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
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
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
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask.
— 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
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
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
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
— 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
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
— Henry David Thoreau
I am of the nature of Stone. It takes the summer's sun to warm it.
— Henry David Thoreau