Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.Henry David Thoreau
What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.Henry David Thoreau
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.Henry David Thoreau
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.Henry David Thoreau
Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.Henry David Thoreau
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.Henry David Thoreau
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.Henry David Thoreau
