Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Heaven

• And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a little of that mountain grandeur into it. We will remember within what walls we lie, and understand that this level life too has its summit, and why from the mountain-top the deepest valleys have a tinge of blue; that there is elevation in every hour, as no part of the earth is so low that the heavens may not be seen from, and we have only to stand on the summit of our hour to command an uninterrupted horizon.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Wall, Lying

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

• Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Positive, Attitude, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.373, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

• Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Summer, Teaching, Night

  "Explore Hinduism". Book by Bansi Pandit, p. 21, 2005.

• You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this, or the like of this. I wish to live ever as to derive my satisfactions and inspirations from the commonest events, everyday phenomena, so that what my senses hourly perceive, my daily walk, the conversation of my neighbors, may inspire me, and I may dream of no heaven but that which lies about me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Lying, Inspiration

• We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Night, Heaven, Camping

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.61

• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Knowledge, Light

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.419, Simon and Schuster

• The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Angel, Heaven, Aspiration

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.17, BookBaby

• A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Writing, Color

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (Annotated Edition)”, p.86, Jazzybee Verlag

• There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Heaven, Earth

• The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Men, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

• Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

• Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Flower, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.180, Princeton University Press

• It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, June, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

• Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Men, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.44, BookBaby

• My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Eye, Heaven

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.468, New York Review of Books

• To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Clouds, Weather, Two

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2012, Delphi Classics

• Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is among the spheres; She, mistress-like, makes all things to be pure.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Queens, Moon, Flames

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.247, Simon and Schuster

• We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed; when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Kindness, Character, Real Friends

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.259, Princeton University Press

• My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence. I do not know that this higher knowledge amounts to anything more definite than a novel and grand surprise on a sudden revelation of the insufficiency of all that we called Knowledge before,—a discovery that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in our philosophy.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Philosophy, Feet, Discovery

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking”, p.26, Sheba Blake Publishing

• Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

• The inhabitants of earth behold commonly but the dark and shadowy under side of heaven's pavement; it is only when seen at a favorable angle in the horizon, morning or evening, that some faint streaks of the rich lining of the clouds are revealed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Dark, Clouds

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.104, Penguin

• The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Light, Sight

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.110, Xist Publishing

• Christianity only hopes. It has hung its harp on the willows, and cannot sing a song in a strange land. It has dreamed a sad dream, and does not yet welcome the morning with joy. The mother tells her falsehoods to her child, but, thank heaven, the child does not grow up in its parent's shadow. Our mother's faith has not grown with her experience. Her experience has been too much for her. The lesson of life was too hard for her to learn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Dream, Song

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

• I always see those of whom I have heard well with a slight disappointment. They are so much better than the great herd, and yet the heavens are not shivered into diamonds over their heads.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Disappointment, Heaven, Herds

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.68, Jazzybee Verlag

• Here or nowhere is our heaven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Truth, Heaven, Existence

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.718, Simon and Schuster

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