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
eye hands mind
The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind.
common-sense mind body
My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologic. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.
men sea world
There are continents and seas in the moral world, to which every man is an isthmus or inlet, yet unexplored by him.
science errors barren
Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.
war defeated
Only the defeated and deserters go to war.
fishing fisherman scales
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.
home night thinking
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
black melancholy midst
There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
two understanding faults
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
justice spiders world
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
flower editing editors
Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?
gratitude morning up-early
Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
sight sea sky
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
fall artist light
Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.