The best Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Writers & Poets

The best Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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Solitude & Loneliness

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Moments Present

There are two seasons when the leaves are in their glory, their green and perfect youth in June and this their ripe old age in October.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

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