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
nature names world
The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World
love inspiration past
It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
life weather fields
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
life fractions our-lives
We live but a fraction of our lives.
teaching learning flow
Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.
life men simplicity
Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!....
friendship exercise imagination
Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and of the rarest faith!....
inspirational kindness children
The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.
eggs sides nests
Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.
winter january
That grand old poem called Winter
class mind golden
I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
wall men wages
Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.
writing thinking mind
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
music hearing intermittent
Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.