Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is esteemed an industrious and enterprising citizen. As if a town had no interest in its forests but to cut them down!”

Henry David Thoreau
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“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”

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“As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property…the landscape is deformed.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”

Henry David Thoreau
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“We can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.”

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“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.”

Henry David Thoreau
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