Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Water

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Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Wherever there is a channel for water, there is a road for the canoe.

Henry David Thoreau

Water, Paddling, Canoeing

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.666, Delphi Classics

None can lead this life who are not almost amphibious.

Henry David Thoreau

Water, This Life

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.68, Penguin

In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

Henry David Thoreau

Book, Sunshine, Water

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

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

Life in us is like the water in a river.

Henry David Thoreau

Rivers, Water

Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.215, Courier Corporation

Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.

Henry David Thoreau

Water, Pioneers, Improvement

Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Thoreau's Book of Quotations”, p.92, Courier Corporation

The sea-shore is a sort of neutral ground, a most advantageous point from which to contemplate the world....There is naked Nature, inhumanly sincere, wasting no thought on man, nibbling at the cliffy shore where gulls wheel amid the spray.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Sea, Water

The seeds of the life of fishes are everywhere disseminated, whether the winds waft them, or the waters float them, or the deep earth holds them; wherever a pond is dug, straightway it is stocked with this vivacious race. They have a lease of nature, and it is not yet out.

Henry David Thoreau

Race, Wind, Water

Henry David Thoreau (2017). “The Most Alive is the Wildest – Thoreau’s Complete Works on Living in Harmony with the Nature: Walden, Walking, Night and Moonlight, The Highland Light, A Winter Walk, The Maine Woods, A Walk to Wachusett, The Landlord, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Autumnal Tints, Wild Apples…”, p.246, e-artnow

All men are partially buried in the grave of custom, and of some we see only the crown of the head above ground. Better are the physically dead, for they more lively rot. Even virtue is no longer such if it be stagnant. A man's life should be constantly as fresh as this river. It should be the same channel, but a new water every instant.

Henry David Thoreau

Men, Rivers, Water

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.93, Xist Publishing

A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.

Henry David Thoreau

Wine, Men, Water

Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.156, Courier Corporation

Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.

Henry David Thoreau

Weed, Water, Currents

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.62, Xist Publishing

Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially disrobed and rising, a sort of chaos reigns still, which only anomalous creatures can inhabit.

Henry David Thoreau

Ocean, Land, Water

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.768, Delphi Classics