The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within the memory ….

A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town..

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our fu….

If you take this life to be simply what old religious folks pretend (I mean the effete, gone to seed in a drought, mere human galls stung by the devi….

The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the….

We saw one school-house in our walk, and listened to the sounds which issued from it; but it appeared like a place where the process, not of enlighte….

Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer th….

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwh….

Certainly, we do not need to be soothed and entertained always like children. He who resorts to the easy novel, because he is languid, does no better….

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?.

Do not engage to find things as you think they are..

A man sits as many risks as he runs..

I keep a mountain anchored off eastward a little way, which I ascend in my dreams both awake and asleep. Its broad base spreads over a village or two….

Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another..

Unto a life which I call natural I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs and sloughs unimaginable, but no moonnor firefly has show….

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they expr….

The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hop….

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all ….

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around..

As naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done..

It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today..