Henry David Thoreau

Character in Walden From: Walden

Author and narrator reflecting on transcendentalist philosophy and simple living

200 quotes

"The only true America is that country where you are at liberty to pursue such a life."
Freedom
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations."
Literature
"I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud."
Solitude
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
Technology
"All things are moral; and in their boundless changes have an unceasing reference to spiritual nature."
Philosophy
"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life."
Life
"For every thousand hacking at the branches of evil, there is one striking at the root."
Justice
"Let your life lightly dance with the seasons."
Nature
"The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn."
Nature
"Wealth is the ability to fully experience life."
Money
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Time
"The winter of the human spirit is what we must avoid and resist with all our strength."
Hope
"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
Time
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on."
Nature
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
Wisdom
"I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear."
Life
"No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof."
Truth
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
Philosophy
"Sleep is a state in which a man shuts his eyes and forgets his work."
Work
"Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights."
Wisdom