Henry David Thoreau Quotes to Inspire Your Next Nature Vacation

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution - such call I good books.

Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.

A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.

My friend is one who takes me for what I am.

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Knowledge does not come to us by details but in flashes of light from heaven.