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I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Dream, Winter
Henry David Thoreau (1974). “The correspondence of Henry David Thoreau”, Greenwood Pub Group

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Firsts, Sin
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.8, Hayes Barton Press

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

Henry David Thoreau
Believe, Men, Long
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.376, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Looks, Woods
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.73, Heron Dance Press

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, History, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and Civil Disobedience”, p.148, Xist Publishing

...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!

Henry David Thoreau
Ruts, Conformity, Tradition
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Long, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.164, Xist Publishing

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Art, Humorous
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.142

The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds them, more than to the gardens of men. There is something indescribably inspiriting and beautiful in the aspect of the forest skirting and occasionally jutting into the midst of new towns, which, like the sand-heaps of fresh fox-burrows, have sprung up in their midst. 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
Beautiful, Nature, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.120, Xist Publishing

We must look a long time before we can see

Henry David Thoreau
Long, Looks, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.163, Rowman & Littlefield

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Years, Liberty
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.11, Hayes Barton Press

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Reality, Life Or Death, Crave
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

Such is beauty ever,-neither here nor there, now nor then,-neither in Rome nor in Athens, but wherever there is a soul to admire.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Rome, Soul
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.32, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

In the summer we lay up a stock of experiences for the winter, as the squirrel of nuts?something for conversation in winter evenings.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Winter, Squirrels
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.74, New York Review of Books

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Henry David Thoreau
Fashion, Teenage, Laughing
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Life, Son, Fundraising

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Dream, Apotheosis
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.192, Xist Publishing

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Morning, Thinking, Sun
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.61, Graphic Arts Books

The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning

Henry David Thoreau
Feel Better, Years, Ends

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, Contentment
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.70, Courier Corporation

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Running, Time
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.

Henry David Thoreau
Money, Permit, Difficult
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.33, Graphic Arts Books

I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.

Henry David Thoreau
Atheist, Support, Should
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

Henry David Thoreau
Running, Sleep, Eye
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.

Henry David Thoreau
Garden, Simplicity, Simple Life
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.212, Cosimo, Inc.

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