Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Gardening

• Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Believe, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

• Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Soul, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.169, Xist Publishing

• When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Strength, Nature, Gardening

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.403, Penguin

• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Eye, Garden

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.9, Courier Corporation

• Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Environmental, Vigor

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.39, Xist Publishing

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