Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization.

Be wild; that is how to clear the river.

I'm definitely still wild at heart.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

To be free and to live a free life - that is the most beautiful thing there is.

Freedom is sweet fat.

I'm a free spirit.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

No, no the mind I love must still have wild places - a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop in the heavy grass, an overgrown litde wood, the chance of a snake or two (real snakes), a pool that nobody's fathomed the depth of, and paths threaded with those litde flowers planted by the wind.

Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

So what is wild? What is wilderness? What are dreams but an internal wilderness and what is desire but a wildness of the soul?

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.

I am no bird and no net ensnares me

Look at my arms, you will find no party hand-cuff on them.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

I like to be as free as possible at all times.

The fundamental sense of freedom is freedom from chains, from imprisonment, from enslavement by others. The rest is extension of this sense, or else metaphor.

I am a free man.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.