“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
“Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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.”
Henry David Thoreau
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
“Henry David Thoreau
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.”
Henry David Thoreau
“In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?”
Henry David Thoreau
“Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.”
Henry David Thoreau
“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.”
Henry David Thoreau
“We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau
“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
Henry David Thoreau
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”
Henry David Thoreau
“It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.”
Henry David Thoreau
“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
Henry David Thoreau
