Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Cats

• It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Cat, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “A Year in Thoreau's Journal: 1851”, p.49, Penguin

• A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the fore part plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her till you tread upon it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Animal, Play

  "Selections from the Journals".

• It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dog, Cat, Men

• It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Cat, Zanzibar

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

• The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cat, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Destiny, Philosopher

  Henry David Thoreau, Wesley T. Mott, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (2005). “Bonds of Affection: Thoreau on Dogs and Cats”, p.65, Univ of Massachusetts Press

• It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cat, Zanzibar, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.228, Xist Publishing

• Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Cat, Poet

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.141, Graphic Arts Books

• The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, Cat, Woods

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.141, Graphic Arts Books

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