Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
- Henry David Thoreau
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
- Henry David Thoreau
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
- Henry David Thoreau
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
- Henry David Thoreau
Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
- Henry David Thoreau
In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.
- Henry David Thoreau
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.
- Henry David Thoreau
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
- Henry David Thoreau
To act collectively is according to the spirit of our institutions.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
- Henry David Thoreau
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- Henry David Thoreau
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
- Henry David Thoreau