Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Meetings

• The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Past, Two, Live In The Moment

• In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Future, Past

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

• Indeed, the life of cattle, like that of many men, is but a sort of locomotiveness; they move a side at a time, and man, by his machinery, is meeting the horse and the ox half-way.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse, Moving, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.15, 谷月社

• I have seen some who did not know when to turn aside their eyes in meeting yours. A truly confident and magnanimous spirit is wiser than to contend for the mastery in such encounters. Serpents alone conquer by the steadiness of their gaze. My friend looks me in the face and sees me, that is all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Eye, Snakes

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.496, Simon and Schuster

• We are not a religious people, but we are a nation of politicians. We do not care for the Bible, but we do care for the newspaper.At any meeting of politicianshow impertinent it would be to quote from the Bible! how pertinent to quote from a newspaper or from the Constitution!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Religious, People, Religion

• A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, Heaven, House

  Henry David Thoreau, Joseph O. Valentine, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Land: Nature's Canvas”, p.37, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The next time the novelist rings the bell I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down.

  Henry David Thoreau

  House, Novelists, Fiction

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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