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
youth plant sail
The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
men years support
An ordinary man will work every day for a year at shoveling dirt to support his body, or a family of bodies; but he is an extraordinary man who will work a whole day in a year for the support of his soul. Even the priests, men of God, so called, for the most part confess that they work for the support of the body.
men sea sailing
Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.
cutting men tree
Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape, and make it more and more tame and cheap.
food believe paddling
Everyone must believe in something. I believe I'll go canoeing.
giving solitude return
A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.
kings men civilization
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
love inspiring peace
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
best-friend i-miss-you missing-you
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
art great-art
It is a great art to saunter !
morning writing color
A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
spring believe cutting
Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.
life money wealth-and-happiness
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
good-morning nature get-well-soon
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.