Henry David Thoreau Interesting Quotations

Commerce is really as interesting as nature.

We are the subjects of an experiment which is not a little interesting to me.

With a little more deliberation in the choice of their pursuits, all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are interesting to all alike.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr

All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.

Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.

The little things in life are as interesting as the big ones.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.