Henry David Thoreau Quotations: LIFE
It is hard to provide and cook so simple and clean a diet as will not offend the imagination.—Walden
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.—Walden
It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.—Walden
It is strange that men will talk of miracles, revelation, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.—"Chastity and Sensuality"
It is the faith with which we take medicine that cures us.—Journal, 27 June 1852
It makes no odds into what seeming deserts the poet is born. Though all his neighbors pronounce it a Sahara, it will be a paradise to him; for the desert which we see is the result of the barrenness of our experience.—Journal, 6 May 1854
It may be translated into every language, and not only be read but actually breathed from human lips;—not be represented on canvas and marble only, but be carved out of the breath of life itself.—Walden
It will have some red stains, commemorating the mornings and evening it has witnessed; some dark and rusty blotches, in memory of the clouds and foggy, mildewy days that have passed over it; and a spacious field of green reflecting the general face of Nature,—green even as the fields; or a yellow ground, which implies a milder flavor,—yellow as the harvest, or russet as the hills.—"Wild Apples"
Knowledge can be acquired only by a corresponding experience. How can we know what we are told merely? Each man can interpret another’s experience only by his own.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
Let the dead bury the dead. The best of them fairly ran down like a clock.—"A Plea for Captain John Brown"
