Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
- Henry David Thoreau
Your religion is where your love is.
- Henry David Thoreau
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
- Henry David Thoreau
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment.
- Henry David Thoreau
One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
- Henry David Thoreau
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- Henry David Thoreau
The tree of Knowledge is a Tree of Knowledge of good and evil.
- Henry David Thoreau
In the planting of the seeds of most trees, the best gardeners do no more than follow Nature, though they may not know it.
- Henry David Thoreau
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.
- Henry David Thoreau
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
- Henry David Thoreau
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
- Henry David Thoreau