Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I miss the woods. Sometimes I go on weekend trips and just wander the woods, barefoot and reminiscing, and I put my contact lenses in. Is that weird?

Sit mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body)

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

If I find a green meadow splashed with daisies and sit down beside a clear-running brook, I have found medicine. It soothes my hurts as well as when I sat in my mother's lap in infancy, because the Earth really is my mother, and the green meadow is her lap.

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

Pray for a healthy mind in a healthy body.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.

Love labor: for if thou dost not want it for food, thou mayest for physic. It is wholesome for thy body and good for thy mind.

It is a technique ideally suited to prevent physical and mental illness and to protect the body generally, developing an inevitable sense of self-reliance and assurance.

What happens in the mind of man is always reflected in the disease of his body.

Treat your body like you would treat a friend.

Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.

Forty percent of the people who are being treated for mental illness are not addressing the physical body.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

We have to come back to basics: learning how to take care of ourselves. Not only learning to love our bodies - and that's a good beginning - but to take care of our bodies and ourselves by learning how to eat and how to think. I think living is really about thoughts and food, and we've got to get back to basics.

I'm a huge fan of just keeping a healthy lifestyle. For your body but for your mind, also.

You can derive everything that is healthy for yourself in the woods.

The lasting pleasures of contact with the natural world are not reserved for scientists but are available to anyone who will place himself under the influence of earth, sea and sky and their amazing life.

There is a definite correlation between the mind and the body.

I find that if I use my time well and take care of my mind/body when I'm outside of work, then I feel more supported throughout my day.

Only spread a fern-frond over a man's head and worldly cares are cast out, and freedom and beauty and peace come in.

If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease

Wisdom is the mind what health is to the body.