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
atmosphere may aroma
Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
nature yellow eight
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
action clutter our-lives
Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
winter tree looks
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."
morning men moon
By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.
angel heaven aspiration
The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
strong animal humanity
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.
animal oxen vegetarianism
One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying himself with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.
rivers perfect tree
Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.
work soul-and-body healing-the-body
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.
inspirational success achievement
The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.
cat play tails
A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
environment enough
We can never have enough of Nature.
baby children world
Every child begins the world again.