Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Soul

• It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination

  Henry David Thoreau

  Marriage, Nature, Creativity

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Material Faith: Thoreau on Science”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Money, Simplicity

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.66, BookBaby

• The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Art, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.31, Heron Dance Press

• One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wise, Silly, Tree

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.29, Heron Dance Press

• The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Subtraction, Grows

• He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.83, Heron Dance Press

• Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Inspiration, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.18, Courier Corporation

• Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Garden, Soul, Religion

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.169, Xist Publishing

• How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, Body, Hunger And Thirst

  Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). “Letters to Various Persons”, p.90

• I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under feathers and fur, or condemned for a while to roam four-footed among the brambles,I caught the clinging mute glance of the prisoner and swore that I would be faithful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Eye, Animal, Soul

• 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

• I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Men, Soul And Body

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1151, Delphi Classics

• With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Learning, Light, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Bly (1992). “The Winged Life: The Poetic Voice of Henry David Thoreau”, Perennial

• On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Hopeful, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Elevating Ourselves: Thoreau on Mountains”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Business, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, Courier Corporation

• When the first light dawned on the earth, and the birds awoke, and the brave river was heard rippling confidently seaward, and the nimble early rising wind rustled the oak leaves about our tent, all people, having reinforced their bodies and their souls with sleep, and cast aside doubt and fear, were invited to unattempted adventures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Adventure, Sleep

• The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. What demon possessed me that I behaved so well? You may say the wisest thing you can, old man, - you who have lived seventy years, not without honor of a kind, - I hear an irresistible voice which invites me away from all that.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Men, Voice

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.19

• In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wind, Sea, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.10, Heron Dance Press

• It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Boys

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.208, Cosimo, Inc.

• The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Soul, Church

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.70, Delphi Classics

• The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Gratitude, Men, Dull Life

• 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

• An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Years, Support

  Henry David Thoreau (1894). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: With Bibliographical Introductions and Full Indexes”

• Lose the world, get lost in it, and find your soul.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Soul, World, Lost

• Every sacred book, successively, has been accepted in the faith that it was to be the final resting-place of the sojourning soul;but after all, it was but a caravansary which supplied refreshment to the traveler, and directed him farther on his way to Isphahan or Bagdat. Thank God, no Hindoo tyranny prevailed at the framing of the world, but we are freemen of the universe, and not sentenced to any caste.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Freedom, Book, Soul

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “The Writings of Henry David Thoreau ....”

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