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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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

—Henry David Thoreau

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If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

—Henry David Thoreau

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

—Henry David Thoreau

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

—Henry David Thoreau

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

—Henry David Thoreau

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It is well to think well; it is divine to act well.

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People see God every day; they just don't recognize him.

—Pearl Bailey

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I recently invented a new theory: ambitheism. This is the doctrine that God both does and doesn't exist. I have noticed that when I try to believe in God, I am filled with sudden moments of despair that God is absent, but when I try to be an atheist, I slowly come to believe in a divine will. Thus, I have concluded that both ideas are true. God simultaneously is and isn't.

—Michael Gorelick

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The veil between us and the divine is more permeable than we imagine.

—Sue Patton Thoele

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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

—Henry David Thoreau

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