Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What ar >>

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth. >>

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that woul >>

Quotations about Nature

All that is sweet, delightful, and amiable in this world, in the seren >>

What law, what reason can deny that gift so sweet, so natural that God >>

All nature is but art unknown to thee. >>

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Thoreau, Henry David