Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Loss

• When we are in health, all sounds fife and drum for us; we hear the notes of music in the air, or catch its echoes dying away when we awake in the dawn.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loss, Echoes, Air

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.123, Xist Publishing

• When it was proposed to me to go abroad, rub oft some rust, and better my condition in a worldly sense, I fear lest my life will lose some of its homeliness. If these fields and streams and woods, the phenomena of nature here, and the simple occupations of the inhabitants should cease to interest and inspire me, no culture or wealth would atone for the loss.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, Loss

• We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Loss, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.380, Princeton University Press

• The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loss, Men, Sound

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.128, Penguin

• I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loss, Should Have, Trying

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.234, Jazzybee Verlag

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