I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
- Topic: Nature
- Location: Redwood National Park
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
If the machine of government is of such a nature that requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.
Age is not better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection.
I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.
Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.
The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment.
Sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; and after summer evermore succeeds barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: so cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.
Leave the beaten track behind occasionally and dive into the woods. Every time you do you will be certain to find something you have never seen before.
Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature.
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
