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
life lying fall
Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
genius failing hours
Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
love spiritual men
I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.
dead-poets-society transcendentalism wilderness
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).
inspirational stars moon
So long as a man is faithful to himself, everything is in his favor, government, society, the very sun, moon, and stars.
actors world noble
Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.
inspirational woods reason
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.
morning memorable night
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night... All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere. The Vedas say, “All intelligences awake with the morning.
clothes sells
Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
doe soar aim
It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and thinner until there is none at all. …We are not the less to aim at the summits though the multitude does not ascend them.
ignorance world sin
The only sin in the world is ignorance.
country mistake ignorance
Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.
beautiful doors taste
A taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors
reading book learning
Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.