Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler...

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler...

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it...

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

There is no remedy for love but to love more

There is no remedy for love but to love more

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience...

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single...

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There...

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes...

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes...

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at...

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that...

No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that...

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

This world is but canvas to our imaginations

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to...

Dreams are the way to unfulfilled wishes in the individual; visions are the way to...

It is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound...

It is a sort of waking dream, which, though a person be otherwise in sound...

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...

If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only...

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Live or die, But don't poison everything.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.