None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Henry David ThoreauRead
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
Interpretation
A morning walk can enhance one's mood and outlook for the entire day.
This quote by Henry David Thoreau emphasizes the rejuvenating and uplifting experience of taking a walk in the early morning. It suggests that starting the day with a connection to nature not only refreshes the mind and body but also sets a positive tone for the hours that follow, implying that such simple pleasures can be profoundly beneficial.
In practice
During a motivational speech about the importance of self-care.
None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.
That grand old poem called Winter
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.
Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure.
I just think that gardening is about the future, a slow thing, that is deep and spiritual as well as spiritually rewarding.
All that man needs for health and healing has been provided by God in nature, the Challenge of science is to find it.
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