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
beer culture use
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
men culture rich
The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
wealth superfluous
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
men heaven might
Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
hair vision routine
It is only necessary to behold the least fact or phenomenon, however familiar, from a point a hair's breadth aside from our habitual path or routine, to be overcome, enchanted by its beauty and significance ... To perceive freshly, with fresh senses is to be inspired.
vision cease objects
I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.
fall intellectual vision
Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.
yoga dont-change
Things don't change. We change.
work ease crowds
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
memorable men poetry
Yet poetry, though the last and finest result, is a natural fruit. As naturally as the oak bears an acorn, and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done. It is the chief and most memorable success, for history is but a prose narrative of poetic deeds.
beautiful nature flower
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit ~ not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviæ from their graves ... You may melt your metals and cast them into the most beautiful moulds you can; they will never excite me like the forms which this molten earth flows out into.
nature afternoon shrubs
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
life beach life-is-like
My life is like a stroll upon the beach.
senior learning years
I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.