Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Heaven

There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Civilization, Heaven

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

I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

Henry David Thoreau

Disappointment, Heaven, Herds

Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.

Henry David Thoreau

Fancy Cars, Anxiety, Heaven

Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.60

A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

Henry David Thoreau

Wall, Heaven, House

Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Henry David Thoreau

Angel, Heaven, Aspiration

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

Henry David Thoreau

Heaven, Body, Flow

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.189, 谷月社

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

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature, Flower, Heaven

Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.180, Princeton University Press

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

The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.

Henry David Thoreau

Independent, House, Heaven

Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.156, Cosimo, Inc.