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 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
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.Henry David Thoreau
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.Henry David Thoreau
Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?Henry David Thoreau
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.Henry David Thoreau
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand. . . . Simplify, simplify.Henry David Thoreau
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.Henry David Thoreau
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.Henry David Thoreau
