Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Spring

• The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Cheer, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.232, Xist Publishing

• They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain torpid began to stretch itself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Believe, Cutting

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1236, Delphi Classics

• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you -know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus may you feel your pulse.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

• As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos and the realization of the Golden Age.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Age, Cosmos

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

• One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Opportunity, Should Have

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “Walden; Or, Life in the Woods”, p.195, Courier Corporation

• The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Music, Spring, Pleasure

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.13, Heron Dance Press

• Every wild apple shrub excites our expectation thus, somewhat as every wild child. It is, perhaps, a prince in disguise. What a lesson to man! So are human beings, referred to the highest standard, the celestial fruit which they suggest and aspire to bear, browsed on by fate; and only the most persistent and strongest genius defends itself and prevails, sends a tender scion upward at last, and drops its perfect fruit on the ungrateful earth. Poets and philosophers and statesmen thus spring up in the country pastures, and outlast the hosts of unoriginal men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Country, Children, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

• We loiter in winter while it is already spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Winter, Gentle Rain

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.324, Penguin

• Spring-an experience in immortality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Immortality

• Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Etc, Events

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

• If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Exercise, Sauntering

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walking: Top Essays”, p.2, 谷月社

• When the ground was partially bare of snow, and a few warm days had dried its surface somewhat, it was pleasant to compare the first tender signs of the infant year just peeping forth with the stately beauty of the withered vegetation which had withstood the winterdecent weeds, at least, which widowed Nature wears.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Weed, Spring, Winter

• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree or oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Summer, Spring

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

• The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith from.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.77, Courier Corporation

• Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Spring, Health

  Henry David Thoreau, Ronald A. Bosco (2005). “Nature's Panorama: Thoreau on the Seasons”, p.106, Univ of Massachusetts Press

• It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, June, Weather

  Henry David Thoreau, John C. Broderick, Robert Sattelmeyer, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis (1981). “Journal”, p.204, Princeton University Press

• In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Morning, Spring, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.223, Xist Publishing

• The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Years, Sparrows

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

• The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Squirrels, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

• Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Men, Plant

• How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau (1929). “Early spring in Massachusetts and Summer”

• No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Dawn, Firsts

  Henry David Thoreau, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Journal, ed. by B. Torrey, 1837-1846, 1850-Nov. 3, 1861”

• Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Fans, May

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1949, Delphi Classics

• As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spring, Wind, Snow

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.226, Graphic Arts Books

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