Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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

Henry David Thoreau

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.

Henry David Thoreau

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.

Henry David Thoreau

No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.

Henry David Thoreau

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of the spring.

Henry David Thoreau

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

Henry David Thoreau

Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau