Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
Henry David ThoreauWe cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun,
Henry David ThoreauI left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
Henry David ThoreauAmid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: be-yourself
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: inspirational writing creativity
English literature, from the days of the minstrels to the Lake Poets—Chaucer and Spenser and Milton, and even Shakespeare, included—breathes no quite fresh and, in this sense, wild strain. It is an essentially tame and civilized literature, reflecting Greece and Rome. …
Where is the literature which gives expression to Nature?
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I do not know of any poetry to quote which adequately expresses this yearning for the Wild.
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The West is preparing to add its fables to those of the East. The valleys of the Ganges, the Nile, and the Rhine having yielded their crop, it remains to be seen what the valleys of the Amazon, the Plate, the Orinoco, the St. Lawrence, and the Mississippi will produce.
While men believe in the infinite some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.
Henry David ThoreaulET HIM MARCH TO THE MUSIC HE HEARS
Henry David ThoreauThe only remedy for love is to love more.
Henry David ThoreauStichwörter: love
You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.
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