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
book angel men
What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!
perseverance fate men
Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of hope and of the future tense, for not only the obstinate is willed, but far more the constant and persevering. The obstinate man, properly speaking, is one who will not. The perseverance of the saints is positive willedness, not a mere passive willingness. The fates are wild, for they will; and the Almighty is wild above all, as fate is.
independent men broken
Whatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
alive wildness
The most alive is the wildest.
civilization wildness
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
home dark glimpse
As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole, it being now quite dark, I caught a glimpse of a woodchuck stealing across my path, and felt a strange thrill of savage delight, and was strongly tempted to seize and devour him raw; not that I was hungry then, except for that wildness which he represented.
truth lasts speak
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
spring men plant
Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
spring squirrels firsts
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
spring years sparrows
The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
morning spring men
In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.
spring may fans
Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.
spring firsts dawn
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
spring firsts
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!