Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Being part of the natural world reminds me that innocence isn't ever lost completely; we just need to maintain our goodness to regain it.

Like a great poet, Nature produces the greatest results with the simplest means. These are simply a sun, trees, flowers, water and love.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people. I am inspired by hard work and honesty. And I am inspired by nature.

Beautiful things spoil nothing.

White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value;they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.

I admire natural, untouched beauty.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.

If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

'Ever seen a leaf - a leaf from a tree?' 'Yes.' I saw one recently - a yellow one, a little green, wilted at the edges. Blown by the wind. When I was a little boy, I used to shut my eyes in winter and imagine a green leaf, with veins on it, and the sun shining ...' 'What's this - an allegory?' "No; why? Not an allegory - a leaf, just a leaf. A leaf is good. Everything's good.'

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

Love lives with Nature, not with lust. Go find her in the flowers.

Beautiful was this world, looking at it thus, without searching, thus simply, thus childlike.

Is not thy home among the flowers?

What if you have seen it before, ten thousand times over? An apple tree in full blossom is like a message, sent fresh from heaven to earth, of purity and beauty.

As long as there are flowers and children and birds in the world, have no fears: everything will be fine.

The frost makes a flower, the dew makes a star.

Everything is so infinitely simple, so infinitely beautiful.

Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Sense the blessings of the earth in the perfect arc of a ripe tangerine, the taste of warm, fresh bread, the circling flight of birds, the lavender color of the sky shining in a late afternoon rain puddle, the million times we pass other beings in our cars and shops and out among the trees without crashing, conflict, or harm.