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
associates
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
men generosity joy
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and buoyant, when we knew not what ailed us, to recognize any generosity in man or Nature, to share any unmixed and heroic joy.
infinite
We must have infinite faith in each other.
distance eye interesting
All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere makes a distant ridge of earth interesting to our eyes by the azure tint it imparts to it.
flower bees should
The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.
secret wild-and-free woods
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
couple nuts tree
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
apples doors healthy
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
beautiful flower apples
The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
men apples appreciate
From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
eye gnarly apples
Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits even to the eye.
history
Going from--toward; it is the history of every one of us.
roots generosity certain
Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
fashion cutting paris
We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.