To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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.


Henry David Thoreau

896

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.


Henry David Thoreau

896

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.


Henry David Thoreau

896

I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.


Henry David Thoreau

896

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.


Henry David Thoreau

896

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.


Henry David Thoreau

896

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.


Henry David Thoreau

896

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.


Henry David Thoreau

896

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.


Henry David Thoreau

896

’Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.


Henry David Thoreau

896

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.


Henry David Thoreau

896

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.


Henry David Thoreau

896

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.


Henry David Thoreau

896

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