Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

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

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.