Quotes by Thoreau, Henry David

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day daw >>

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and ca >>

The only wealth is life. >>

Quotations about World

We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. >>

The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a differe >>

If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires. >>

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit -- not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.

Thoreau, Henry David