Quotes Tagged With :thoreau

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

It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.

This afternoon, being on Fair Haven Hill, I heard the sound of a saw, and soon after from the Cliff saw....

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

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

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

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

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

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

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau