walden thoreau

WALDEN, or, life in the woods

by Henry D. Thoreau

My favorite quotes from “Walden”, by Henry D. Thoreau.(images from www.sxc.hu)

I went to the woods because I wished to

live deliberately, to front only the essential facts

of life, and see if I could not learn what I thad to teach, and

not, when I came to die, discover that I had not

lived.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation

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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.

Not till we are lost, do we begin to find ourselves

It is a surprising and memorable experience to be lost in the woods any time.

We are made to exaggerate the importance of what work we do; and yet how much is not done by us.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the

new

In the long run,

men hit only what

they aim at

We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas,

but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate

T i m e i s b u t t h e s t r e a m I g o a - fi s h i n g i n

Things do not change.

We change.

I t I s N o t A l l B o o k s T h a t A r e A s D u l l A s T h e i r R e a d e r s

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.

Now just put the foundations under them.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us