Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
goal discipline life-is
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
heaven path earth
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
book mysterious natural
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
money permit difficult
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
race tree stories
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
funny country animal
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.
attractive sentences attractiveness
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
sky feet lakes
As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.
deeds-done transcendentalism good-deeds
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
morning hopeful soul
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.
hands years six
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
transcendentalism enjoy knows
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
loss men use
The ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
fall loss men
We love to hear some men speak, though we hear not what they say; the very air they breathe is rich and perfumed, and the sound of their voices falls on the ear like the rustling of leaves or the crackling of the fire. They stand many deep.