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
space earth whole
This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
gun giving bird
A gun will give you the body, not the bird
garden environmental vigor
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
men doors years
I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open. The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the mind travels. How worn and dusty, then, must be the highways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
friendship giving three
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
men majority neighbor
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
lonely horse stars
I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
inspirational success forever
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.
devil legion company
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
reality life-or-death crave
Be it life or death, we crave only reality.
men alive mets
To be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
each-day thyself
Renew thyself completely each day.
book fate men
The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
long burden
As long as I have the friendship of the sesasons life will never be a burden to me.