Henry David Thoreau Sides Quotations

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty. There seem to be two sides of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or dissolution, in life or death. And seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees them, all things are alive and beautiful.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.