AtomicQuote

Top Henry David Thoreau Quotes

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it wa...

Moncure Daniel Conway

In 1881, being on a visit to Boston, my wife and I found ourselves in the Parker House with the 's, and went over to Charleston to hear him lecture. His subject was 'Some Mistakes of Moses,' and it wa...

Tags: art, boston, emerson, emotion, friendship, henry d thoreau, henry david thoreau, henry thoreau, honor, humor

He'd been down at the Cass County Library, reading...Win danced a jig he thought that was so funny...about this cat Henry David Thoreau, which he pronounced Toe-Row. He read about his life and read so...

Joe Eszterhas

He'd been down at the Cass County Library, reading...Win danced a jig he thought that was so funny...about this cat Henry David Thoreau, which he pronounced Toe-Row. He read about his life and read so...

Tags: charlie simpson, henry david thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tags: henry david thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Tags: depression, environmental, henry david thoreau, love, nature, science

This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality...

Henry David Thoreau

This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality...

Tags: henry david thoreau, politics