It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or shall we transgress them at once? Men, generally, under such a govern...
I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my back across the seats, in a summer forenoon, dreami...
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.
Si vous voulez convaincre un homme qu'il agit mal, agissez bien. Mais ne vous souciez pas de le convaincre. Les hommes croient ce qu'ils voient. Alors, donnez-leur à voir.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometime...
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Any fool can make a ruleAnd any fool will mind it.
We are but faint-hearted crusaders...our expeditions are but tours...half the walk is but retracing our steps. We should go forth on the shortest walks, perchance, in the spirit of stirring adventure,...
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.
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Thoreau the Patron Saint of Swamps because he enjoyed being in them and writing about them said, my temple is the swamp… When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most im...
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life...
The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate this world.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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