Quotes Tagged With :thoreau

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but positive....

Kessler depicts his developing intimacy with a handful of dairy goats and offers an enviable glimpse....

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

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

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

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all,....

The endless ocean was his sole companion , and on some deeply sentimental level, it seemed sufficient.....

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

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

Ultimately, I found my instincts mirrored in a line from Thoreau: 'My needle...always settles between....