Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Environment
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As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
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We can never have enough of Nature.
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Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.
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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
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Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
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If a man walks 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 days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
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Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny were not equally so?
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We need the tonic of wildness.
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The improved means to the unimproved end.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
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One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
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What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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