This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
Henry David ThoreauTo read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise...
Henry David ThoreauI will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.
Henry David ThoreauTags: identity self-knowledge voice
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
Henry David ThoreauThe stars are God's dreams, thoughts remembered in the silence of his night.
Henry David ThoreauIf a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a spectulator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Henry David ThoreauTags: conservation
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David ThoreauTags: goals dreams security futility aspirations castles-in-the-air foundations work-lost
I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement.
Henry David ThoreauTags: nature ecology the-woods
I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily acquired than got rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labor in. Who made them serfs of the soil? Why should they eat their sixty acres, when man is condemned to eat only his peck of dirt? Why should they begin digging their graves as soon as they are born?
Henry David ThoreauTags: society nature economics ecology
Men say they know many things;
But lo! they have taken wings, —
The arts and sciences,
And a thousand appliances;
The wind that blows
Is all that any body knows
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