Henry David Thoreau ( 10 of 165 )
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and read more
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have read more
Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a read more
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It read more
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances read more
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have even lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. -Henry David Thoreau.
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Simplicity is the nature of great souls.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures read more
A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
