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
home thinking fool
What a fool he must be who thinks that his El Dorado is anywhere but where he lives.
over-you fruit ripe-fruit
There is ripe fruit over your head.
summer rolling grass
And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.
jobs men doe
The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get "a good job," but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
creativity energy thick
We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
real real-power
Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
nature cities forests
What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?
body earth spirit
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
carpe-diem islands eternity-of-life
find your eternity in each moment
drinking son thinking
I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.
men cry speak
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
thinking world companion
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
boys hunting hunters
When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
gun boys hunting
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.