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
ignorance growth remember
How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
knowledge light heaven
Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
garden vacuums filled
Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled.
garden soul green
Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
morning names sunrise
Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.
inspirational motivational sick
Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.
disappointment silence personality
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
greatness important ordinary
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
law liberty unjust
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
adventure smell needs
We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
spring opportunity should-have
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
spring immortality
Spring-an experience in immortality.
men religion evolution
There is more religion in men's science, than there is science in their religion.
government liberty libertarian
Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.