Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf — Henry David Thoreau
My profession is always to be alert, to find God in nature, to know God’s lurking places — Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. — Henry David Thoreau
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. — Henry David Thoreau
The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to. — Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. — Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. — Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. — Henry David Thoreau
The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. — Henry David Thoreau
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams — Henry David Thoreau
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. — Henry David Thoreau
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance. — Henry David Thoreau
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins. — Henry David Thoreau
Whatever the human law may be, neither an individual nor a nation can commit the least — Henry David Thoreau
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? we are determined to be starved before we are hungry. — Henry David Thoreau
The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard. — Henry David Thoreau
Men rush to california and australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction — Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. — Henry David Thoreau
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure — Henry David Thoreau
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant? — Henry David Thoreau
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the — Henry David Thoreau