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-changing thinking assuming
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
night long community
It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies, if the poet did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.
beautiful wisdom patience
The cart before the horse is neither beautiful nor useful.
summer nature cheer
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
philosophical animal men
Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food
philosophical simplify
Simplify, simplify, simplify.
integrity be-good
Be not merely good. Be good for something.
summer flower august
In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.
life summer july
Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
reality sublime atheism
We are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.
book views america
How novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.
thinking way ancient
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
self-esteem esteem ifs
If I am not I, who will be?
life haste-makes-waste leisure
Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.