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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic...
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may...
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating...
Wherever a man goes, men will pursue him and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to...
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the...
A farmer, a hunter, a soldier, a reporter, even a philosopher, may be daunted; but nothing can deter a poet, for he is...
True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of...
In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and...
Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if...
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all...
Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
Source:...
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the...
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and...
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder...
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve.
Source: Walden,...
Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can...
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Source: Walden, 1854.
-- Henry David...
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their...