posts tagged "Henry David Thoreau"

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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

Henry David Thoreau

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“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Everyone must believe in something. I believe I’ll go canoeing.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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I am on the alert for the first signs of spring …

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

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I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls. —Henry David Thoreau (via John Burnside - The visitor)

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

—Henry David Thoreau

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau

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In order to avoid delusions I would fain let man go by & behold a universe in which man is but a grain of sand— …Some rarely go outdoors — most are always at home at night — very few have stayed out all night once in their lives — fewer still have gone behind the world of humanity — seen his institutions like toad-stools by the way-side.

Henry David Thoreau
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Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness.

Henry David Thoreau (Walking)
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I WISH to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil,—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that.

Henry David Thoreau (Walking)
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Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

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I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

Henry David Thoreau (Walden)
In wildness is the preservation of the world. —Henry David Thoreau

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

—Henry David Thoreau

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What did the mountain say? What did the mountain do?

Henry David Thoreau
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Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?

Henry David Thoreau
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The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

Henry David Thoreau

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