Quotes about Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined." - Henry David Thoreau

"With all you science, can you tell how it is that light comes into the soul?"

"To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come.  The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature.  For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive.  It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention."

It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.

It's all quiet here on the Western Front of the War on Terror... for now, but, speaking just for myself, I'd feel a whole lot happier and a whole lot safer if our soldiers and our National Guardsmen were here at home instead of losing their lives overseas to that hydra-headed monster we ourselves have created through indifference bred by the murmur of that human creek Thoreau called "quiet desperation."

When I read Thoreau,I am a new man and all is right with the world.

We live but a fraction of our lives. - Henry David Thoreau