Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Food

• Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Food, Paddling

• Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Funny, Life, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.90, Courier Corporation

• He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Greed, Cooking

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.133, Graphic Arts Books

• Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet drink and botanical medicines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Time, Food, Air

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.119, Courier Corporation

• I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Drinking, Food, Son

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden: 150th Anniversary Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Long, Serious

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.441, Delphi Classics

• There is not one kind of food for all men. You must and you will feed those faculties which you exercise. The laborer whose body is weary does not require the same food with the scholar whose brain is weary.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Food, Exercise, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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