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
men tragedy coats
We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
thinking mindfulness woods
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
life dream perseverance
The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams.
science technology gossip
When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.
knowledge learning perception
All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
nature men no-friends
Nature must be viewed humanly to be viewed at all; that is, her scenes must be associated with humane affections, such as are associated with one's native place. She is most significant to a lover. A lover of Nature is preeminently a lover of man. If I have no friend, what is Nature to me? She ceases to be morally significant. . .
nature needs vigor
The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background, where the pine flourishes and the jay still screams.
nature admirable
Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
summer nature cheer
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.
work men doors
The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.
work cat zanzibar
It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
beauty sweet spring
So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we may not be reminded how inconsistent your deeds are with it; for all odor is but one form of advertisement of a moral quality, and if fair actions had not been performed, the lily would not smell sweet. The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity and courage which are immortal.
love war enemy
Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.
love doe objects
Love does not analyze its object.