The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.Henry David Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.Henry David Thoreau
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.Henry David Thoreau
Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?Henry David Thoreau
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live and could not spare any more time for that one.Henry David Thoreau
There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.Henry David Thoreau
