Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Enthusiasm

• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Serenity, Enthusiasm

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer (1981). “Journal”, p.29, Princeton University Press

• Very few men can speak of Nature, for instance, with any truth. They overstep her modesty, somehow or other, and confer no favor.They do not speak a good word for her. Most cry better than they speak, and you can get more nature out of them by pinching than by addressing them. The surliness with which the woodchopper speaks of his woods, handling them as indifferently as his axe, is better than the mealy-mouthed enthusiasm of the lover of nature. Better that the primrose by the river's brim be a yellow primrose, and nothing more, than that it be something less.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Men, Rivers

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.76, Xist Publishing

• Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Humor, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.277, Delphi Classics

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