36 Quotes About Thoreau

Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau

Oh to reach the point of death and realize one has not lived at all.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

Nov. 2, 1837. Truth strikes us from behind, and in the dark, as well as from before and in broad daylight.

Whenever I read anything by Henry David Thoreau I honestly feel as though he’s with me. No. More like I am with him.

Thoreau’s writings feel more alive to me than any thing that I’ve ever read. When I read anything by Thoreau, I see his subject. I feel it. I taste it. I smell it. I feel as though he’s walking beside me, showing me with gestures and soft-spoken words the marvelous natural wonders that he’s written about.

[Thoreau] is a nimble skater who cuts elegant and complicated figures on a surface of frozen platitudes. Perhaps he would have been a better writer if he had not been quite so good a man.

Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite thing to read.