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Quotes from Walking — Henry David Thoreau

1817–1862 United States

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Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.

Walking (1862)

If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

Walking (1862)

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East.

Walking (1862)

There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented.

Walking (1862)

Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.

Walking (1862)

Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.

Walking (1862)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.