Henry David Thoreau Alive Quotations

Most of the stone a nation hammers goes toward its tomb only. It buries itself alive.

The most alive is the wildest.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life. To be awake is to be alive.

To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

To be awake is to be alive.