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Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for.

Henry David Thoreau
Earth, Dogma, Made
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.103, Jazzybee Verlag

There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Heaven, Earth

Resign yourself to the influence of the earth.

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

This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.

Henry David Thoreau
Space, Earth, Whole
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.97, Xist Publishing

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Men, Earth
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.512, Delphi Classics

Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."

Henry David Thoreau
Afterlife, World, Earth

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Henry David Thoreau
Civilization, Earth, Ecology
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.607, Delphi Classics

You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain

Henry David Thoreau
Sweet, Cake, Earth
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.192, Courier Corporation

New earths, new themes expect us.

Henry David Thoreau
Land, Earth, Theme
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.185, Courier Corporation

We have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.

Henry David Thoreau
Heaven, Needs, Earth

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

Henry David Thoreau
Love, Earth, Beans
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.238, Penguin

I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.

Henry David Thoreau
Sky, Earth, Milk

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

Henry David Thoreau
Lying, Earth, Landscape
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2217, Delphi Classics

The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.

Henry David Thoreau
Body, Earth, Spirit
Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.313, Penguin

I should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Men, Earth
Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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