3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

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.

Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

My profession is to always find God in nature.

Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature.... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.