Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

Always blame conditions, not men

The values of the world we inhabit and the people we surround ourselves with have a profound effect on who we are.

In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.

Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it.

Looking, touching, material, place and form are all inseparable from the resulting work. It is difficult to say where one stops and another begins. The energy and space around a material are as important as the energy and space within. The weather--rain, sun, snow, hail, mist, calm--is that external space made visible. When I touch a rock, I am touching and working the space around it. It is not independent of its surroundings, and the way it sits tells how it came to be there.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

Whoever would change men must change the conditions of their lives.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

Nature is a definite thing. But nurture is just as powerful. It can really mess with you.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

Age, like woman, requires fit surroundings.

Your environment influences your mindset.

We're all products of our environment. The key is not to fall.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.

I don't think you can escape the environment we live in now.

I am what is around me.

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?

No one acts or experiences in a vacuum.

if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.