All HENRY DAVID THOREAU Quotes about “Environment”

“As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.”
“Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.”
“We can never have enough of Nature.”
“A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.”
“We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.”
“It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.”
“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”
“Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.”
“Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.”
“The improved means to the unimproved end.”
“He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.”

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