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
stars different triangles
The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment!
running dog pet
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him.
men righteous-man swamps
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it, than by the woods and swamps that surround it.
nature imagination-creativity giving
It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
inspirational
Being is the great explainer.
voting moral vote
All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong.
love found worthy
I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
feet goal long
Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
beautiful rip law
Death is beautiful when seen to be a law, and not an accident. It is as common as life.
nature morning bird
The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the first morning of creation.
success fall dark
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.
respect men steps
Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
uplifting nature opera
My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
time return vices
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.