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 carpe-diem greater
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
long-distance-relationship nature taken
Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.
literature oracles calm
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
valentines-day wise wisdom
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
funny life running
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
nature imagination literature
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
people literature suits
Every people have gods to suit their circumstances.
love ignorance skills
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
inspirational justice may
Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
nature eye garden
Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.
education running dream
In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
love hate literature
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
soulmate literature innocence
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
anger heart imagination
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.