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Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Believe, Cutting
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

Henry David Thoreau
Cheer, Spring, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Summer, Spring
Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

Tis now the twenty-third of march, And this warm sun takes out the starch Of winter's pinafore - Methinks The Very pasture gladly drinks A health to spring, and while it sips It faintly smacks a myriad lips.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Winter, Twenties
Elizabeth Hall Witherell, Henry David Thoreau (1979). “The Poetry of Henry David Thoreau: A Selected Critical Edition”

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Etc, Events
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Ice, Wind
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.193, Cosimo, Inc.

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Spring, Health
Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.106, Univ of Massachusetts Press

We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Winter, Gentle Rain
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Years, Glee
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Rome, Water
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.740, Delphi Classics

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Henry David Thoreau
Morning, Spring, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.223, Xist Publishing

Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Men, Plant

One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Opportunity, Should Have
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.195, Courier Corporation

They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Winter, Men
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Henry David Thoreau
Music, Spring, Pleasure
Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

Spring-an experience in immortality.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Immortality

That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that has browsed off all the woods on Walden shore, that Trojan horse, with a thousand men in his belly, introduced by mercenary Greeks! Where is the country's champion, the Moore of Moore Hall, to meet him at the Deep Cut and thrust an avenging lance between the ribs of the bloated pest?

Henry David Thoreau
Country, Horse, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.139, Xist Publishing

I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

Henry David Thoreau
Sympathy, Morning, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Wind, Snow
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Flower, Men
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

On the whole, my respect for my fellow-men, except as one may outweigh a million, is not being increased these days.... Such do not know that like the seed is the fruit, and that, in the moral world, when good seed is planted, good fruit is inevitable, and does not depend on our watering and cultivating; that when you plant, or bury, a hero in his field, a crop of heroes is sure to spring up. This is a seed of such force and vitality, that it does not ask our leave to germinate.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Hero, Men

The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

Henry David Thoreau
Faith, Spring, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

Henry David Thoreau
Weed, Spring, Winter

A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he wouldlie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.

Henry David Thoreau
Friendship, Spiritual, Spring
Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.1302, e-artnow

As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

Henry David Thoreau
Spring, Age, Cosmos
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

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