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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

Henry David Thoreau
Cities, Swamps, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.

Henry David Thoreau
Deeds Done, Transcendentalism, Good Deeds
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .

Henry David Thoreau
Race, Tree, Stories
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.139

How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Art, Stars
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.356, New York Review of Books

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Rare Beauty, Crowns
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3047, Delphi Classics

I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man, there are many pleasures which he will not know!

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Apples, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.209, Gibbs Smith

The mass of men are very easily imposed on. They have their runways in which they always travel, and are sure to fall into any pit or box-trap set therein.

Henry David Thoreau
Freedom, Fall, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.3033, Delphi Classics

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Henry David Thoreau
Brother, Book, Reading
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.106, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Will you be a reader, a student merely, or a seer? Read your fate, seewhat isbefore you, and walkon intofuturity.

Henry David Thoreau
Fate, Students, Reader

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Years, Glee
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.

Henry David Thoreau
Poetry, Criticism, Taste
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1056, Delphi Classics

If you stand right fronting and face to face to a fact, you will see the sun glimmer on both its surfaces, as if it were a cimeter, and feel its sweet edge dividing you through the heart and marrow, and so you will happily conclude your mortal career. Be it life or death, we crave only reality. If we are really dying, let us hear the rattle in our throats and feel cold in the extremities; if we are alive, let us go about our business.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Sweet, Heart
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.70, Xist Publishing

I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.

Henry David Thoreau
Hands, Wish, Action
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Cities, Rivers
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.181, Graphic Arts Books

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Car, Railroads
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

Henry David Thoreau
Memories, Pyramids, Facts
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.549, Simon and Schuster

They who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts. Their measures are half measures and makeshifts merely. They put off the day of settlement, and meanwhile the debt accumulates.

Henry David Thoreau
School, Debt, Half
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Rome, Water
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

I delight to come to my bearings,... not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sitthoughtfully while it goes by.

Henry David Thoreau
Independence, Delight, Nervous
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.276, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.

Henry David Thoreau
Class, What If, Sometimes
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Economy, Levity
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The book has never been written which is to be accepted without any allowance.

Henry David Thoreau
Bible, Book, Accepted
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.491, Simon and Schuster

In the student sensuality is a sluggish habit of mind.

Henry David Thoreau
Sloth, Mind, Students
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.158, Xist Publishing

Heaven is not one of your fertile Ohio bottoms, you may depend on it.

Henry David Thoreau
Ohio, Heaven, May
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.220, Jazzybee Verlag

A stranger may easily detect what is strange to the oldest inhabitant, for the strange is his province.

Henry David Thoreau
May, Strange, Stranger
Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.174, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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