Henry David Thoreau Quotes — Page 27

Writer, Philosopher

Creative

“Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.”

Soul Beauty Rome

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Henry David Thoreau

Writer, Philosopher

Adventurous

“We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten 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.”

Needs Adventure Smell

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Adventurous

“The most alive is the wildest.”

Alive Wildness

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Creative

“I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.”

Writing Sleep

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Courageous

“We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.”

Boys Gun Hunting

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Philosophical

“It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.”

Literature Culture Sheep

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Courageous

“Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.”

Two Party Opposites

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Grateful

“We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.”

Life Nature Sight

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Adventurous

“I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.”

Morning Nature Feet

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Philosophical

“It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which it is defended, there is no hospitality shown to, there is no appreciation of, the order of truth with which it deals. I know of no book that has so few readers. There is none so truly strange, and heretical, and unpopular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling-block.”

Christian Block Appreciation

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Philosophical

“Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust caught, a segment of the rainbow which I have clutched.”

Real Stars Morning

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Creative

“The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.”

Nature Time Gentle Touch

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