3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.

It is so much pleasanter and wholesomer to be warmed by the sun while you can be, than by an artificial fire.

All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

The fate of the country... does not depend on what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.

My enemies are worms, cool days, and most of all woodchucks.

So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Things do not change; we change.