Quotes about Harmony
Man needs not only to be spiritualized, but naturalized.
— Henry David Thoreau
I rejoice that there are owls. Let them do the idiotic and maniacal hooting for men. It is a sound admirably suited to swamps and twilight woods which no day illustrates, suggesting a vast and undeveloped nature which men have not recognized.
— Henry David Thoreau
He teaches how to void excrement and urine and the like, elevating what is mean, and does not falsely excuse himself by calling these things trifles.
— Henry David Thoreau
I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing as well as sad, how many trivial affairs even the wisest thinks he must attend to in a day;…so simplify the problem of life, distinguish the necessary and the real.
— Henry David Thoreau
The natural remedy is to be found in the proportion which the night bears to the day.
— Henry David Thoreau
The poem of the world is uninterrupted, but few are the ears that hear it.
— Henry David Thoreau
How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?
— Henry David Thoreau
There can be no very black melancholy for him who has his senses still and lives in the midst of nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
If a man has faith, he will co-operate with equal faith everywhere; if he has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to.
— Henry David Thoreau
I would rather sit in the open air, for no dust gathers on the grass, unless where man has broken ground.
— Henry David Thoreau
A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I
— Henry David Thoreau