Henry David Thoreau Youth Quotations

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.