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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Vision

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It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To

It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.

Henry David Thoreau
Beauty, Hair, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.349, New York Review of Books

I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

Henry David Thoreau
Nature, Vision, Awe

Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

Henry David Thoreau
Fall, Intellectual, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.

Henry David Thoreau
Writing, Vision, Peers
Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.341, Princeton University Press

Beside some philosophers of larger vision, Carlyle stands like an honest, half-despairing boy, grasping at some details only of their world systems.

Henry David Thoreau
Philosophical, Boys, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.281, Simon and Schuster

Methinks I am never quite committed, never wholly the creature of my moods, but always to some extent their critic. My only integral experience is in my vision. I see, perchance, with more integrity than I feel.

Henry David Thoreau
Integrity, Commitment, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.359, Penguin

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface ofthings. We think that that is which appears to be.

Henry David Thoreau
Mean, Thinking, Vision
Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.152

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