"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.












Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.
"There is just as much beauty visible to us in the landscape as we are prepared to appreciate, and not a grain more. ... A man sees only what concerns ...
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
"When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, th...
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven
"This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of...