Heaven is under our feet as well as over... by Henry David Thoreau | We Heart Quotes

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

- Henry David Thoreau

Other quotes by Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

- Henry David Thoreau

Crime Business Nothing Life

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

- Henry David Thoreau

Value Happiness Life

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

- Henry David Thoreau

Acting

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

- Henry David Thoreau

Interest

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

- Henry David Thoreau

Nature

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

- Henry David Thoreau

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