Quotes Tagged With :thoreau

The trees show definitions of themselves subtly like the face of a man.

Knight's disdain for Thoreau was bottomless - 'he had no deep insight into nature'...

Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new....

Books had rescued me when i most needed saving... Books were smarter than me and words inspired me.......

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world.

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair.

Thoreau went to the woods. I went to the mats.

This American government—what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself....

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and....