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You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Henry David Thoreau
Mind, Body, Woods
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.21, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

Henry David Thoreau
Income, Done, Charity
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.49, Courier Corporation

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.

Henry David Thoreau
Creativity, World, Novelty
Henry David Thoreau (1977). “The portable Thoreau”, Penguin

It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to maintain himself in whatever attitude he find himself through obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such.

Henry David Thoreau
Attitude, Men, Law
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden and on the Duty of Civil Disobedience”, p.229, Henry David Thoreau

As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.

Henry David Thoreau
Long, Burden

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

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Men, Alive, Mets
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

Henry David Thoreau
Garden, Environmental, Vigor
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Henry David Thoreau
Gun, Giving, Bird
Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

We should impart our courage and not our despair.

Henry David Thoreau
Despair, Should, Impart
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.54, Graphic Arts Books

If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.

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Running, Men, Risk
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.111, Xist Publishing

Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.

Henry David Thoreau
Memorable, Men, Poetry
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99

The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.

Henry David Thoreau
Success, Business, Work
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.31, Courier Corporation

The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact.

Henry David Thoreau
Courage, Men, East
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.217, Xist Publishing

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Intellectual, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

Henry David Thoreau
Spiritual, Men, Heaven
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, BookBaby

The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.

Henry David Thoreau
Beer, Culture, Use
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Cousin, Powerful
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.110, Penguin

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Real, Thinking
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.73, Jazzybee Verlag

How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?

Henry David Thoreau
Character, Harvest
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.134, Courier Corporation

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Henry David Thoreau
Fame, Equal, Best Things
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.83, Jazzybee Verlag

Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Rivers, Doors
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.92, Penguin

It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, June, Weather
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.

Henry David Thoreau
Distance, Humility, Cutting

The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.

Henry David Thoreau
Appreciation, Eye, Science
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.270, Delphi Classics

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Henry David Thoreau
Cute, Friendship, Take Me
Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

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