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
winter roots littles
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
thinking way loses
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
travel home tourism
Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
betrayal weakness complaining
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
successful simple discovery
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
law numbers forever
Observation is so wide awake, and facts are being so rapidly added to the sum of human experience, that it appears as if the theorizer would always be in arrears, and were doomed forever to arrive at imperfect conclusion; but the power to perceive a law is equally rare in all ages of the world, and depends but little on the number of facts observed.
men one-direction intuition
What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
crazy cutting knives
I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...
men speech he-man
It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
philosophy circles philosopher
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
nature sorrow environment
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
sarcastic canada cold
I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much; what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
memories silly forget
Of what significance are the things you can forget.
hope expectations
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.