I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment.
What is religion? That which is never spoken.
We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.
A man may esteem himself happy when that which is his food is also his medicine.
I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged with triviality.
In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts...
The silence sings. It is musical. I remember a night when it was audible. I heard the unspeakable.
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
It is as hard to see one’s self as to look backwards without turning around.
Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.
The dry grasses are not dead for me. A beautiful form has as much life at one season as another.
You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.
Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito’s wing that falls on the rails.
It is a great art to saunter !
We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain...
We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.