Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
There is some of the same fitness in a man’s building his own house that there is in a bird’s building its own nest. Who knows but if men constructed …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. —Henry David Thoreau, Allegash and East Branch
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
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 …
Quote for Today: Henry David Thoreau
One day when I went out to my wood-pile, or rather my pile of stumps, I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an …