Henry David Thoreau Quotes

2.8K quotes · Writer, Philosopher

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Henry David Thoreau Quotes

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Creative

“Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.”

Eye Apples Gnarly

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Love

“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.”

Men Way Kindness

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Philosophical

“The universe is wider than our views of it.”

Science Views

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Philosophical

“The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.”

Character Integrity

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Funny

“What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.”

Morality Ethics Chiefs

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Hopeful

“The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

Voice Nature

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Philosophical

“The path of least resistance leads to crooked rivers and crooked men.”

Men Rivers

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Spiritual

“It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination”

Nature Creativity Marriage

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Grateful

“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”

Men Swamps Righteous Man

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Regretful

“Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.”

Men Reform

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Grateful

“Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.”

Morning Spring

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Adventurous

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

Land Sea Environmental

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