Quote

You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

Henry David Thoreau

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
Abolitionist
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Ecologist
Environmentalist
Essayist
Naturalist
Philosopher
Poet
Translator
Writer
birthplace of Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau
Henry D. Thoreau
Must
Converse
Much
Converses
Mind
Woods
Would
Field
Fields
Health
Spirit
Imbibe
Body
Covet

More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

Image
All men are really most attracted by the beauty of plain speech, and they even write in a florid style in imitation of this. Theyprefer to be misunderstood rather than to come short of its exuberance.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
You never gain something but that you lose something.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated. We easily come to doubt if they exist. We soon forget them. They are the highest reality.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
You speak of poverty and dependence. Who are poor and dependent? Who are rich and independent? When was it that men agreed to respect the appearance and not the reality?
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Men have come to such a pass that they frequently starve, not for want of necessaries, but for want of luxuries.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Every man will be a poet if he can otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
My vicinity affords many good walks and though for so many years I have walked almost every day, and sometimes for several days together, I have not yet exhausted them. An absolutely new prospect is a great happiness, and I can still get this any afternoon. Two or three hours' walking will carry me to as strange a country as I ever expect to see.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
Poetry is the mysticism of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
What stuff is the man made of who is not coexistent in our thought with the purest and sublimest truth?
Henry David Thoreau
Image
No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet will instantly prove it false by setting aside its requisitions. It is indeed all that we do not know.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Henry David Thoreau
Image
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