#Henry David Thoreau

[quietlotus]

“The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[mysharona1987]

[philosophybits]

How insufficient is all wisdom without love.

Henry David Thoreau, Journals

[perfectquote]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

[thehopefulquotes]

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

[geopsych]

Nature now, like an athlete, begins to strip herself in earnest for her contest with her great antagonist, Winter. In the bare trees and twigs what a display of muscle!

—Henry Thoreau's Journal: 29-Oct-1858

[flowerytale]

Henry David Thoreau, from Walden; or, Life in the Woods Leonora Carrington, from The Hearing Trumpet Florence Welch, from Useless Magic: Lyrics & Poetry Mary Oliver, from “How I Go to the Woods”, Swan: Poems and Prose Poem Franz Kafka, from Letters to Friends, Family, and Editors

Ivan Ivanovič Šiškin (1832–1898), Covert (detail) William Trost Richards (1833–1905), Woodland Landscape (detail) Bright Star, written and directed by Jane Campion

[thoughtkick]

In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.

Henry David Thoreau

[perfectfeelings]

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

[surqrised]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau

[entheognosis]

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau

[quietlotus]

“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”

— Henry David Thoreau

[nobeerreviews]

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

-- Henry David Thoreau

(Genova, Italy)

[philosophybits]

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.

Henry David Thoreau, Journals

[perfectquote]

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Henry David Thoreau

[thehopefulquotes]

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Henry David Thoreau