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Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Daniel J. Rice

It has always been my understanding that truth and freedom can only exist in wild places. — Daniel J. Rice

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness! — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Arthur C. Clarke

Many, and some of the most pressing, of our terrestrial problems can be solved only by going into space. Long before it was a vanishing commodity, the wilderness as the preservation of the world was proclaimed by Thoreau. In the new wilderness of the Solar System may lie the future preservation of mankind. — Arthur C. Clarke

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Aldo Leopold

We all strive for safety, prosperity, comfort, long life, and dullness. The deer strives with his supple legs, the cowman with trap and poison, the statesman with pen, the most of us with machines, votes, and dollars. A measure of success in this is all well enough, and perhaps is a requisite to objective thinking, but too much safety seems to yield only danger in the long run. Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum: In wilderness is the salvation of the world. Perhaps this is the hidden meaning in the howl of the wolf, long known among mountains, but seldom perceived among men. — Aldo Leopold

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

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. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Daniel J. Rice

The outside is the only place we can truly be inside the world. — Daniel J. Rice

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

It is remarkable that such delicate flowers should here adorn these wilderness paths. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-cost with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

In the wilderness is the salvation of the world. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Richard Louv

We need the tonic of wilderness. - Henry David Thoreau — Richard Louv

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely? — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

A howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. - — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life ( ... ). — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

A township where one primitive forest waves above, while another primitive forest rots below, - such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you had imagined. Except the few burnt lands, the narrow intervals on the rivers, the bare tops of the high mountains, and the lakes and streams, the forest is uninterrupted. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Every tree sends its fibres forth in search of the Wild. The cities import it at any price. Men plow and sail for it. From the forest and wilderness come the tonics and barks which brace mankind. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Let me live where I will, on this side is the city, on that the wilderness, and ever I am leaving the city more and more, and withdrawing into the wilderness. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

The Library is a wilderness of books. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Rebecca Solnit

[Thoreau's] famous night in jail took place about halfway through his stay in the cabin on Emerson's woodlot at Walden Pond. His two-year stint in the small cabin he built himself is often portrayed as a monastic retreat from the world of human affairs into the world of nautre, though he went back to town to eat with and talk to friends and family and to pick up money doing odd jobs that didn't fit into Walden's narrative. He went to jail both because the town jailer ran into him while he was getting his shoe mended and because he felt passionately enough about national affairs to refuse to pay his tax. To be in the woods was not to be out of society or politics. — Rebecca Solnit

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Bill Bryson

The American woods have been unnerving people for 300 years. The inestimably priggish and tiresome Henry David Thoreau thought nature was splendid, splendid indeed, so long as he could stroll to town for cakes and barley wine, but when he experienced real wilderness, on a vist to Katahdin in 1846, he was unnerved to the cored. This wasn't the tame world of overgrown orchards and sun-dappled paths that passed for wilderness in suburban Concord, Massachusetts, but a forbiggind, oppressive, primeval country that was "grim and wild ... savage and dreary," fit only for "men nearer of kin to the rocks and wild animals than we." The experience left him, in the words of one biographer, "near hysterical. — Bill Bryson

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

Wildness is the preservation of the World. — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day! — Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau Wilderness Quotes By Henry David Thoreau

The ocean is a wilderness reaching round the globe, wilder than a Bengal jungle, and fuller of monsters, washing the very wharves of our cities and the gardens of our sea-side residences. — Henry David Thoreau