Quotes from Henry David Thoreau

Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.

To be awake is to be alive.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

The voice of nature is always encouraging.

Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!

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

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

I fear that we are such gods or demigods only as fauns and satyrs, the divine allied to beasts, the creatures of appetite, and that, to some extent, our very life is our disgrace.

As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

I do not believe there are eight hundred human beings on the globe.