Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Recognition

• The fault finder will find faults even in paradise and thereby miss the joys that recognition of the positives bring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Joy, Missing

• A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Names, Individuality

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.195, Xist Publishing

• As all curves have reference to their centres or foci, so all beauty of character has reference to the soul, and is a graceful gesture of recognition or waving of the body toward it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Character, Curves, Focus

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.55, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• In an ancient and dead language, any recognition of living nature attracts us. These are such sentences as were written while grass grew and water ran. It is no small recommendation when a book will stand the test of mere unobstructed sunshine and daylight.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Book, Sunshine, Water

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.80, Delphi Classics

• Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Beautiful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

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