Henry David Thoreau Mps Quotations

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coöperated with art here.

I see less difference between a city and a swamp than formerly.

The squeaking of the pump sounds as necessary as the music of the spheres.

As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.

When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.

Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps.

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it

A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.