I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.
Henry David ThoreauThe animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.
Henry David ThoreauIf you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David ThoreauI have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
Henry David ThoreauEast of my bean-field, across the road, lived Cato Ingraham, slave of Duncan Ingraham, Esquire, gentleman, of Concord village, whobuilt his slave a house, and gave him permission to live in Walden Woods;MCato, not Uticensis, but Concordiensis. Some say that he was a Guinea Negro. There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last. He too, however, occupies an equally narrow house at present.
Henry David Thoreau