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

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response...

Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response...

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when...

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to...

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...

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make...

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make...

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being...

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being...

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

I say beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new...

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you...

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use...

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past...

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works...

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works...