Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?
- Henry David Thoreau
Go confidently ... Live the life that you imagined.
- Henry David Thoreau
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
- Henry David Thoreau
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
- Henry David Thoreau
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- Henry David Thoreau
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
- Henry David Thoreau
You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.
- Henry David Thoreau
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Slothful do not have the time to become virtuous or despicable.
- Henry David Thoreau
Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.
- Henry David Thoreau