"The very uprightness of the pines and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the Sun goes down. He appears to migrate westward daily and tempt us to follow him. He is the Great Western Pioneer whom the nations follow. We dream all night of those mountain ridges in the horizon, though they may be of vapor only, which were last gilded by his rays.”
“The walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.”
“One can hardly imagine a more healthful employment, or one more favorable to contemplation and the observation of nature.”
More on Nature
“Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.”
“Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.”
“Nature avenges herself speedily on the hard pedantry that would chain her waves. She is no literalist. Every thing must be taken genially, and we must be at the top of our condition, to understand any thing rightly.”
More on Life
“yet it seemsLife scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,But the torn petals strew the garden plot;And there's but common greenness after that.”
“Whether you respond to life or react to life determines how far you're gonna go in life.”
“We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.”