Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights. >>

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for >>

Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. >>

Quotations about Wilderness

Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell >>

What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be >>

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the >>

We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Thoreau, Henry David