Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Revelations

• It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Inspiration, Past

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1143, Delphi Classics

• The order of things should be reversed; the seventh day should be the day of toil...and the other six his Sabbath of the affections and the soul, in which to range this widerspread garden, and drink in the soft influences and sublime revelations of Nature.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Order, Soul

• True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him. All very well perhaps from his point of view, but only a little better than the common dilettantism.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beauty, Country, Views

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.36, Graphic Arts Books

• 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

• If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Communication, Character

  Henry David Thoreau, Barry Andrews (2005). “True Harvest: Readings from Henry David Thoreau for Every Day of the Year”, p.137, Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations

• The next day the Indian told me their name for this light,--artoosoq',--and on my inquiring concerning the will-o'-the-wisp, and the like phenomena, he said that his "folks" sometimes saw fires passing along at various heights, even as high as the trees, and making a noise. I was prepared after this to hear of the most startling and unimagined phenomena, witnessed by "his folks"; they are abroad at all hours and seasons in scenes so unfrequented by white men. Nature must have made a thousand revelations to them which are still secrets to us.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Science, Men

• Go not to the object; let the object come to you.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Revelations, Objects

• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!... What at such a time are histories, chronologies, traditions, and all written revelations? The brooks sing carols and glees to the spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Glee

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, White Man, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.621, Delphi Classics

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