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A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more harmonious compositions.

A journal is a repository for all those fragmentary ideas and odd scraps of information that might otherwise be lost and which some day might lead to more "harmonious compositions."

Henry David Thoreau
Ideas, Might, Information

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

Henry David Thoreau
Heaven, Sauntering, Walkers
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.1, 谷月社

There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.

Henry David Thoreau
Apples, House, Fields
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Natural History Essays”, p.202, Gibbs Smith

My vicinity affords many good walks; and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Years, Two
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.3, 谷月社

Every sunset I witness inspires me with the desire to go to West as distant and as fair as that which the sun goes down. Eastward I go only by force; but westward I go free.

Henry David Thoreau
Sunset, Inspire, Desire

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Golden Days, Play
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.368, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

I realized a school doesn't need a School Committee or Trustees or Governors or lumber or approved textbooks. All a school needs is a mind that sends and minds that receive. I shall teach my own students how to teach themselves. My own school. No buildings. Break out of the classroom prison. All I need is SKY. The Universe can be my classroom - the great vast world of the Concord countryside.

Henry David Thoreau
School, Sky, Mind

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

Henry David Thoreau
Children, Care, Faces
Henry David Thoreau, Carol Spenard LaRusso (2012). “The Green Thoreau: America's First Environmentalist on Technology, Possessions, Livelihood, and More”, p.24, New World Library

Wealth is measured by the level of experience in all aspects of life

Henry David Thoreau
Levels, Wealth, Aspect

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

Henry David Thoreau
Night, Men, Different
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Excursions and Poems : The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume V (of 20)”, p.289, HOUGHTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

Unpremeditated music is the true gauge which measures the current of our thoughts; the very undertow of our life's stream.

Henry David Thoreau
Gauges, Currents, Music Is
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2088, Delphi Classics

I have great faith in a seed.

Henry David Thoreau
Seeds, Great Faith
Henry David Thoreau (1868). “Excursions”, p.158

It is the stars as not yet known to science that I would know, the stars which the lonely traveler knows.

Henry David Thoreau
Lonely, Stars, Traveler
Henry David Thoreau (1973). “Winter: From the Journal of Henry David Thoreau”

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.

Henry David Thoreau
Love Is, Imperfection, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1137, Delphi Classics

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of the head or hand. I love a broad margin to my life.

Henry David Thoreau
Sacrifice, Hands, Moments
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.175

I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.

Henry David Thoreau
Office, Way, Penance
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.9

Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.

Henry David Thoreau
Ocean, Tides, Streams
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Truth, Consistency
Civil Disobedience (1849)

Faith never makes a confession.

Henry David Thoreau
Literature, Confession
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Stars, Moon

I could not help being struck with the foolishness of that institution which treated me as if I were mere flesh and blood and bones, to be locked up.

Henry David Thoreau
Blood, Flesh, Helping
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.83, Penguin

Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.

Henry David Thoreau
Taken, Condolences, Eulogy
Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.31, Yale University Press

I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.

Henry David Thoreau
Mind, Three, Pieces
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.23, Courier Corporation

Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.

Henry David Thoreau
Speech, Hearing, Convenience
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.230, Penguin

I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live it from beginning to end. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would exercise their minds as much as mathematics.

Henry David Thoreau
Mean, Exercise, Games
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.180, Penguin

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