Henry David Thoreau Quotations: NATURE & THE ENVIRONMENT
Let me say to you and to myself in one breath: Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your soil. Regard not your past failures nor successes. All the past is equally a failure and a success; it is success in as much as it offers you the present opportunity.—Journal, after 16 July 1850
Let men tread gently through nature.—Journal, 26 April 1857
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls on the rails.—Walden
Love is the burden of all Nature's odes.—Journal, 2 March 1840
Love never stands still, nor does its object. It is the revolving sun and the swelling bud. If I know what I love, it is because I remember it.—Journal, 14 March 1842
Man's progress through nature should have an accompaniment of music. It relieves the scenery, which is seen through it as a subtler element, like a very clear morning air in autumn.—Journal, 8 January 1842
Marching is when the pulse of the hero beats in unison with the pulse of Nature, and he steps to the measure of the universe; then there is true courage and invincible strength.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack RiversÂ
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum—many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!—Journal, 3 January 1861
Most poems, like the fruits, are sweetest toward the blossom end.—Journal, 23 August 1853
Music is the sound of the circulation in nature's veins. It is the flux which melts nature.—Journal, 24 April 1841
