Henry David Thoreau Nature Quotes

What did Henry David Thoreau say about Nature?

Henry David Thoreau has written many quotes about Nature. E.g.,

• What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
• There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

What are the top most famous Nature quotes by Henry David Thoreau?

Here are the top most famous quotes about Nature by Henry David Thoreau.

• What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
• There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
• If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
• Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
• Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
• The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
• Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
• There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
• Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
• The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.