Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Eating

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

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Destiny, Race

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Higher Laws'.

• Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Needs, Remember, Hunger

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.148, Jazzybee Verlag

• Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Rats, Sometimes, Eating

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.132, Graphic Arts Books

• All sensuality is one, though it takes many forms; all purity is one. It is the same whether a man eat, or drink, or cohabit, or sleep sensually. They are but one appetite, and we only need to see a person do any one of these things to know how great a sensualist he is. The impure can neither stand nor sit with purity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sleep, Men, Needs

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.158, Xist Publishing

• There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and from mere gluttony.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Drinking, Differences

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Excursions (Annotated Edition)”, p.97, Jazzybee Verlag

• A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below,--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such a wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Poetry, Age, Honey

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• I have no doubt that they lived pretty much the same sort of life in the Homeric age, for men have always thought more of eating than of fighting; then, as now, their minds ran chiefly on the "hot bread and sweet cakes;" and the fur and lumber trade is an old story to Asia and Europe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sweet, War, Fighting

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods”, p.57, Graphic Arts Books

• Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

• To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Opportunity, Solitude, Done

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.97

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