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Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite

Life consists with Wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him. One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest trees.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Men, Climbing
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.11, 谷月社

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Memories, Transcendentalism
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Henry David Thoreau
Life And Love, Inspirational Life, Mean
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

Henry David Thoreau
Reading, Acting, Hints
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.24, Yale University Press

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.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Dog, Hunting
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.138, Cosimo, Inc.

The universe expects every man to do his duty in his parallel of latitude.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Duty, Vocation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Insperational
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.71, Trajectory Inc

My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Uplifting, Nature, Opera
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.58, Courier Corporation

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Giving Up, Learning
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Courage, Fighting
Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.12, David M Gross

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Honesty, Believe
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.97, Cambridge University Press

In the production of the necessaries of life Nature is ready enough to assist man.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Cape Cod”, p.133, Trajectory Inc

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Best Friend, True Love
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.114, Penguin

Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.

Henry David Thoreau
Live Life, Order, Should Have
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.39, Xist Publishing

Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.

Henry David Thoreau
Perseverance, Nature, Winning
Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.112, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Inspiring, Way
Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Henry David Thoreau
Writing, Self, Risk

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Henry David Thoreau
Independent, Men, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.269, e-artnow

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Science, Views, Space
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

Henry David Thoreau
Simple, Imagination, Simplicity
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.179, Courier Corporation

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Dream, Live Life
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

People die of fright and live of confidence.

Henry David Thoreau
Fear, People, Fright
Henry David Thoreau (1962). “The journal of Henry D. Thoreau”

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

Henry David Thoreau
Eye, Light, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I have clutched.

Henry David Thoreau
Stars, Intangible Quality, Dust
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.33, Heron Dance Press

Is there any such thing as wisdom not applied to life?

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Wisdom
Henry David Thoreau (2007). “My Thoughts Are Murder to the State: Thoreau's Essays on Political Philosophy”, p.172, David M Gross

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