“Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep”—Henry David Thoreau.

“Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.”

—Henry David Thoreau, naturalist and author (12 Jul 1817-1862).

“Men do not fail commonly for want of knowledge, but for want of prudence to give wisdom the preference. What we need to know in any case is very simple.”

—Henry David Thoreau. 

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root…” 

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden. 

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that alluvion which covers the globe…till we come to a hard bottom and rocks in place, which we can call reality, and say, This is…”

—Henry David Thoreau, Walden. 

“Things do not change; we change.” 

Henry David Thoreau (1817 – 1862). 

“Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.”

—Henry David Thoreau.