Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
Henry David ThoreauIn my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
Henry David ThoreauI learned to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of nature, rather than a member of society.
Henry David ThoreauI have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
Henry David ThoreauMy profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
Henry David ThoreauEven the poor student studies and is taught only political economy, while that economy of living which is synonymous with philosophy is not even sincerely professed in our colleges. The consequence is, that while he is reading Adam Smith, Ricardo, and Say, he runs his father in debt irretrievably.
Henry David Thoreau