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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Adventure, Dead Poets Society
Walden ch. 2 (1854)

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Smell, Needs

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspiring, Home, Adventure
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.149, Xist Publishing

The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Exercise, Medicine
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

Henry David Thoreau
Travel, Home, Adventure
Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.273, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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

My neighbors tell me of their adventures with famous gentlemen and ladies, what notabilities they met at the dinner-table; but I am no more interested in such things than in the contents of the Daily Times. The interest and the conversation are about costume and manners chiefly; but a goose is a goose still, dress it as you will.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Gossip, Gentleman
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.333, Penguin

Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Dawn, Care
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.

Henry David Thoreau
Adventure, Simplicity, Scrapbooking
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.168, Courier Corporation

We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return - sending back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.

Henry David Thoreau
Heart, Adventure, Journey
Henry David Thoreau (1863). “Excursions”, p.162

The English did not come to America from a mere love of adventure, nor to truck with or convert the savages, nor to hold offices under the crown, as the French to a great extent did, but to live in earnest and with freedom.

Henry David Thoreau
Freedom, Adventure, America
Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “A Yankee in Canada: With Anti-slavery and Reform Papers”, p.62

But why should not the New Englander try new adventures - not lay so much stress on his grain, his potato and grass crop, and his orchards - and raise other crops than these? Why concern ourselves so much about our beans for seed, and not be concerned at all about a new generation of men.

Henry David Thoreau
Stress, Adventure, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “The Illustrated Walden: Thoreau Bicentennial Edition”, p.171, Penguin

I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east to west. We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracing the steps of the race; we go westward as into the future, with a spirit of enterprise and adventure.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Moving, Adventure
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.7, 谷月社

When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Adventure, Sleep

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