S. Walden Quotes
A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.
No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this tendency doesn't die out, it's wiped out.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.
The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.
It is up to us as lawmakers to provide the resources and streamlined processes that will enable our federal forest managers to become the best possible steward of our lands.
As federal lawmakers, we have a responsibility to set a precedent for energy efficient practices.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.
Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
Life at H.I.V.E. may have its attractions after all, Otto thought. Friends, as they say, may come and go, but high-powered laser weapons are forever.
We also have to stop the flow of precursor chemicals that meth cooks use to boil up this poison.
A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.
The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.
I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.
A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy.
In addition to hydropower, Oregon and the Northwest have pioneering companies leading the way in environmentally friendly energy technology.
Art is something given, not reproduced... the painter paints what he sees with his innermost senses, the expression of his being... for him every other impression becomes an inner expression.
Darkdoom? Darkdoom did this?" Nero was visibly surprised. He placed a hand on his forehead, rubbing his temples. "Oh, why is it always the bald ones?
Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
Man is an animal who more than any other can adapt himself to all climates and circumstances.
If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as he is dead-and-alive to begin with. A man sits as many risks as he runs.
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure.
