Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Nature

A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Thursday, Project Gutenberg #4232. The sentence follows Thoreau’s claim that sincere travelling is no pastime and precedes his description of weariness, sore feet and experience acquired on the road; it is nineteenth-century travel philosophy rather than practical safety advice.

The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, August 19, 1851 entry, around printed page 405 in Journal II, represented by Project Gutenberg #59031. ‘How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live!’ begins a paragraph in which Thoreau connects walking and bodily action with the flow of his own thoughts. It is dated autobiographical journal reflection and writing philosophy, not a rule that all writing requires literal standing or walking.

Walden, Conclusion; Thoreau closes the book by insisting that more day remains to dawn before describing the sun as only a morning star.

Walden, chapter “The Pond in Winter”; the line joins the immediate natural world with spiritual wonder.

Walden, chapter “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”

Walden, “Where I Lived, and What I Lived For.”

Essay “Walking”; Thoreau links uncultivated nature with renewal and human vitality.