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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Time

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It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

Henry David Thoreau
Inspiring, Time, Fog
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.14, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

Nothing can be more useful to a man than a determination not to be hurried.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Determination
"Thoreau's Book of Quotations".

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Henry David Thoreau
Inspirational, Life, Time
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden: An Annotated Edition”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Running, Time
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Memories, Transcendentalism
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Moon, Men
Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.167, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Future, Past
'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Integrity, Vices
Henry David Thoreau (1975). “Early Essays and Miscellanies”, p.224, Princeton University Press

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Fishing, Eternity
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.64, Courier Corporation

The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Car, Railroads
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.76, Cosimo, Inc.

We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Snow, World
Henry David Thoreau, Bob Blaisdell (2011). “Thoreau: A Book of Quotations”, p.44, Courier Corporation

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

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

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Live In The Moment, Waste
Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.60, Courier Corporation

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

Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

Henry David Thoreau
Life, Time, Health
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.100, Courier Corporation

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Henry David Thoreau
Appreciation, Time, Class
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.

In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Fishing, Sublime

Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Men, Busy
Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden”, p.140, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, May, Lips
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.222, Xist Publishing

There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Reform, World
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.106, Delphi Classics

What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Law, Long
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.360, Penguin

The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Pyramids, Perfection
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.280, Delphi Classics

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Treasure, Want
Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.108, Xist Publishing

As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Criticism, May
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.53, Jazzybee Verlag

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Henry David Thoreau
Time, Eternity Of Life, Fishing
Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.64, Cosimo, Inc.

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