3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.

When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.

Every poet has trembled on the verge of science.

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

The poet uses the results of science and philosophy, and generalizes their widest deductions.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...

We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.