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Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Use, Rich
Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.297, Princeton University Press

If we see nature as pausing, immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is beautiful.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Nature, Progress
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2120, Delphi Classics

Nature is goodness crystallized.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Morality, Goodness
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.284, Jazzybee Verlag

There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Yearning, Wildness
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.45, Jazzybee Verlag

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Nature, Cheer
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Henry David Thoreau
Funny, Life, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Home, Solitary
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.114, Courier Corporation

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Eye, Garden
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Men, Civilization
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.163, Graphic Arts Books

We can never have enough of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Environmental, Environment
1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Spring'.

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit ~ not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves ... You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into.

Henry David Thoreau
Beautiful, Nature, Flower
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU - Ultimate Collection: 6 Books, 26 Essays & 60+ Poems, Including Translations. Biographies & Letters (Illustrated): Walden, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada, Canoeing in the Wilderness, Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, Life Without Principle, Excursions, Poems of Nature, Familiar Letters…”, p.192, e-artnow

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Nature, Feet
Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.28, Univ of Massachusetts Press

Science with its retorts would have put me to sleep; it was the opportunity to be ignorant that I improved. It suggested to me that there was something to be seen if one had eyes. It made a believer of me more than before. I believed that the woods were not tenantless, but choke-full of honest spirits as good as myself any day,--not an empty chamber, in which chemistry was left to work alone, but an inhabited house,--and for a few moments I enjoyed fellowship with them.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Sleep, Eye
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Nature, Gentle Touch
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.91, Courier Corporation

The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.

Henry David Thoreau
Summer, Nature, Cheer
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.84, Simon and Schuster

The sun is but a morning star.

Henry David Thoreau
Good Morning, Nature, Stars
Walden ch. 18 (1854)

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Nature, Sight
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.205, Cosimo, Inc.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Imagination, Doe
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.93, Graphic Arts Books

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Literature, Constitution
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.6, Courier Corporation

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Henry David Thoreau
Strength, Nature, Gardening
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream. I shall never find in the wilds of Labrador a greater wildness than in some recess of Concord.

Henry David Thoreau
Dream, Nature, Inspire
David R. Foster, Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Thoreau's Country: Journey through a Transformed Landscape”, p.5, Harvard University Press

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Black, Melancholy
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.84, Graphic Arts Books

Already nature is serving all those uses which science slowly derives on a much higher and grander scale to him that will be served by her. When the sunshine falls on the path of the poet, he enjoys all those pure benefits and pleasures which the arts slowly and partially realize from age to age. The winds which fan his cheek waft him the sum of that profit and happiness which their lagging inventions supply.

Henry David Thoreau
Art, Nature, Fall
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1042, Delphi Classics

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Peace, Nature
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1710, Delphi Classics

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Truth, Law
Henry David Thoreau (1862). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. By Henry D. Thoreau”, p.381

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