Henry David Thoreau Quotes on nature

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... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity.. view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?.. view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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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... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages... view

By: Henry David Thoreau

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

By: Henry David Thoreau

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