3,409 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

We must walk consciously only part way toward our gold, and then leap into the dark to our success.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.

A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.

Every child, begins the world again.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are...than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times, and to the latest.

The heart is forever inexperienced

The meeting of two eternities, the past and future is precisely the present moment.