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By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Moon, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.96, Courier Corporation

That grand old poem called Winter

Henry David Thoreau
Winter, January
Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.78, Univ of Massachusetts Press

I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust,... confess that I am astonished at the power of endurance, to say nothing of the moral insensibility, of my neighbors who confine themselves to shops and offices the whole day for weeks and months, aye, and years almost together. I know not what manner of stuff they are of,--sitting there now at three o'clock in the afternoon, as if it were three o'clock in the morning.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Work, Years

You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Secret, Obscurity
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.

Henry David Thoreau
Voting, Moral, Vote
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

Henry David Thoreau
Drawing, Hands, Play
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.5, Courier Corporation

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Rooms
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.172, Yale University Press

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Henry David Thoreau
Thinking, Way, Ancient
Henry David Thoreau, Nancy L. Rosenblum (1996). “Thoreau: Political Writings”, p.27, Cambridge University Press

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Henry David Thoreau
Disappointment, Silence, Personality
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.312, Courier Corporation

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.

Henry David Thoreau
Years, Printing, Century
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.59, Delphi Classics

The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Men, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?

Henry David Thoreau
Ignorance, Growth, Remember

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

Henry David Thoreau
Change, Truth, Clothes
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Book, Reading
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Reading'.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Ideas, World
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.158

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

Henry David Thoreau
Giving, Poverty, Wealth
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

Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Poverty, Bones
Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden”, p.346, Collector's Library

Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.

Henry David Thoreau
Teaching, Ties, Intellectual
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.124

I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Memories, Lying
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.117, New York Review of Books

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Men, Leisure
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.156, Penguin

Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Positive

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, Littles
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More”, p.72, New World Library

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

Henry David Thoreau
Simple, Realizing, Simple Living

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Honor, He Man
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.24, Courier Corporation

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

Henry David Thoreau
Book, Reading, Half
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.84, Courier Corporation

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