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
time waste determined
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
positive attitude feet
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
tree woods walk-in-the-woods
I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.
inspiring way honest
The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
sea land environmental
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
nature science men
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
fortune-cookie wealth
Wealth can't buy heath, but heath can buy wealth.
destiny animal race
I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
creativity writing iron
Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
inspirational uplifting sports
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
life happiness depression
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
love inspirational monday
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
nature long may
You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
nature anxiety leisure
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.