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Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there

Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.

Henry David Thoreau
Garden, Perfect, Alchemist
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Doors, Democracy
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

I take it for granted, when I am invited to lecture anywhere,--for I have had a little experience in that business,--that there isa desire to hear what I think on some subject, though I may be the greatest fool in the country,--and not that I should say pleasant things merely, or such as an audience will assent to; and I resolve, accordingly, that I will give them a strong dose of myself. They have sent for me, and engaged to pay for me, and I am determined that they shall have me, though I bore them beyond all precedent.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Strong, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2000). “Walden and Other Writings: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.753, Modern Library

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Henry David Thoreau
Civilization, Midst, Advantage

If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.

Henry David Thoreau
Strong, Animal, Fishing
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.93, Penguin

The moose is singularly grotesque and awkward to look at. Why should it stand so high at the shoulders? Why have so long a head? Why have no tail to speak of?

Henry David Thoreau
Long, Awkward, Moose
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods: The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume III (of 20)”, p.68, Trajectory Inc

News Coverage!! As news expose rather than cover events.

Henry David Thoreau
Events, News, News Coverage

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Henry David Thoreau
Work, Cat, Zanzibar
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

Henry David Thoreau
Truth, Fear, Needs
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.

Henry David Thoreau
Communication, Men, Literature
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.356, Penguin

If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events that make the news transpire,--thinnerthan the paper on which it is printed,--then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.

Henry David Thoreau
Moving, Events, News
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.84, Rowman & Littlefield

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

Henry David Thoreau
Respect, Native American, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2010). “Wild Apples and Other Natural History Essays”, p.79, University of Georgia Press

Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.

Henry David Thoreau
Voting, Doing Nothing, Civil Disobedience
Henry David Thoreau (1942). “Civil Disobedience”, p.6, Hayes Barton Press

We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.

Henry David Thoreau
Fear, Men, Righteous Man
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.159, Princeton University Press

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Memorable, Intelligent
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

I noticed, as I had done before, that there was a lull among the mosquitoes about midnight, and that they began again in the morning. Nature is thus merciful. But apparently they need rest as well as we.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Morning, Midnight
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.291

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Journey, Elephants
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.885, Delphi Classics

This life we live is a strange dream, and I don't believe at all any account men give of it.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Dream, Believe
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Weakness, Wells
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

How rarely I meet with a man who can be free, even in thought! We all live according to rule. Some men are bedridden; all world-ridden.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, World
Henry David Thoreau (1906). “Journal: Aug. 16, 1856-Aug. 7, 1857”

Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Appreciate, Humans
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.123, Graphic Arts Books

I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

Henry David Thoreau
Home, House, I Have Learned

I love a life whose plot is simple.

Henry David Thoreau
Simple, Simplicity, Plot
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.69, Delphi Classics

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, New York, Native American
Henry David Thoreau (2002). “The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde”, p.299, Macmillan

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Henry David Thoreau
Tree, Pioneers, Boards
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.589, Delphi Classics

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