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What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Henry David Thoreau
Towns, Youth, Nature Beauty
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.130, Cosimo, Inc.

Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost universal respect.

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Dresses, Towns, England
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.13, 谷月社

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Self, Littles

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Friendship, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.597, e-artnow

Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, War, Enemy
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.11, Heron Dance Press

So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

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Beauty, Sweet, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Collected Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated): Philosophical and Autobiographical Books, Essays, Poetry, Translations, Biographies & Letters: Walden, Civil Disobedience, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, Slavery in Massachusetts, Walking…”, p.1093, e-artnow

The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Relief, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.142, Jazzybee Verlag

The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Doe, Culture
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.67, 谷月社

We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau
Family, Art, Struggle
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.31, Graphic Arts Books

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. [Like they say, 'Every cloud has a silver lining'...so if you are patient, expect, anticipate, look and work for some good to come from the cloud, you will be rewarded eventually!]

Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment, Clouds, Looks

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

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Encouraging, Needs, Praise
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.14, Courier Corporation

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

Henry David Thoreau
Women, Talking, Pleasure
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.115, Yale University Press

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

Henry David Thoreau
Interesting, Farming, Poor
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.121, Graphic Arts Books

The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.

Henry David Thoreau
Spiritual, Gratitude, Men

A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.

Henry David Thoreau
Gratitude, Book, Grateful

Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

Henry David Thoreau
Ocean, Land, Water
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics

I lingered most about the fireplace, as the most vital part of the house.

Henry David Thoreau
House, Fireplaces
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.142, Simon and Schuster

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man.

Henry David Thoreau
Mother, Nature, Children
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.

Henry David Thoreau
Fearless, Essentials, Divine

The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Burrs, Thrown
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.23, Heron Dance Press

As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Morning, Winter
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.203, Xist Publishing

Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.

Henry David Thoreau
Grateful, Mean, Reality
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “Summer.-v.7. Autumn”

The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Fire
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.38

Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Appreciate, Vastness, Lost
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.124, Xist Publishing

How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?

Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, Growth, Use
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.15, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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