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
life song men
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
life cities people
City life is millions of people being lonesome together.
wisdom gold surface
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
running men sky
As the skies appear to a man, so is his mind. Some see only clouds there; some, prodigies and portents; some rarely look up at all; their heads, like the brutes,' are directed toward Earth. Some behold there serenity, purity, beauty ineffable. The world runs to see the panorama, when there is a panorama in the sky which few go to see.
music might lasts
Listen to music religiously, as if it were the last strain you might hear.
men plant ifs
If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
love life trust
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.
lonely way should
Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
lakes perfect sincerity
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
clutter
I have no time to be in a hurry.
love graduation dream
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
dog cat men
It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
love inspirational loneliness
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
loving-life alive awake
To be awake is to be alive.