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The lichen on the rocks is a rude and simple shield which beginning and imperfect Nature suspended there. Still hangs her wrinkledtrophy (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children. Consider the silent influencewhich flowers exert, no less upon the ditcher in the meadow than the lady in the bower. When I walk in the woods, I am reminded that a wise purveyor has been there before me; my most delicate experience is typified there (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
In society, in the best institutions of men, it is easy to detect a certain precocity. When we should still be growing children, we are already little men. Give me a culture which imports much muck from the meadows, and deepens the soil,--not that which trusts to heating manures, and improved implements, and modes of culture only! (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
When I think of the gold-diggers and the Mormons, the slaves and the slave-holders and the flibustiers, I naturally dream of a glorious private life. No, I am not patriotic (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am accustomed to think very long of going anywhere,--am slow to move. I hope to hear a response of the oracle first (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The strongest wind cannot stagger a Spirit; it is a Spirit’s breath. A just man’s purpose cannot be split on any Grampus or material rock, but itself will split rocks till it succeeds (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. He’ll be as dumb as if his lips were stone (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The only free road, the Underground Railroad, is owned and managed by the Vigilant Committee. They have tunneled under the whole breadth of the land (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Don’t spend your time in drilling soldiers, who may turn out hirelings after all, but give to undrilled peasantry a country to fight for. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am sorry to think that you do not get a man’s most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with its black arts - a mere shadow and reminiscence of humanity, a man laid out alive and standing, and already, as one may say, buried under arms with funeral accompaniments. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
When you travel to the Celestial City, carry no letter of introduction. When you knock, ask to see God,--none of the servants. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
And by another year, Such as God knows, with freer air, More fruits and fairer flowers Will bear, While I droop here. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)
Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other’s privacy than their communion. (Henry David Thoreau Quotes)