Henry David Thoreau Quotations: SENSES
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe.—A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
The earth song of the cricket! Before Christianity was, it is. Health, health, health, is the burden of its song.—Journal, 17 June 1852
The man I meet with is not often so instructive as the silence he breaks.—Journal, 7 January 1857
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it.—Walden
The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?—Journal, 6 May 1852
The occupied ear thinks that beyond the cricket no sound can be heard, but there is an immortal melody that may be heard morning, noon, and night, by ears that can attend, and from time to time this man or that hears it, having ears that were made for music.—Journal, 21 July 1851
The poet cherishes his chagrins and sets his sighs to music.—Journal, 1 June 1853
The prosaic mind sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.—Journal, 9 December 1859
The ringing of the church bell is a much more melodious sound than any that is heard within the church.—Journal, 2 January 1842
The senses both of hearing and smelling are more alert. We hear the tinkling of rills which we never detected before.—Cape Cod
