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
weather two clouds
To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.
eye heaven etc
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
world littles
A little thought is sexton to all the world.
home house i-have-learned
I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
world wilderness salvation
In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
i-have-learned traveller
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
party fire third-parties
Fire is the most tolerable third party
lying earth landscape
I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.
sacredness ifs
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
death summer lying
When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How gently lay themselves down and turn to mould. They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when people, with our boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and ripe-with such an Indian-summer serenity will shed our bodies.
truth wine color
As the least drop of wine tinges the whole goblet, so the least particle of truth colors our whole life.
inspirational life hands
The devil finds work for idle hands.
gains loses
You never gain something but that you lose something.
fashion honesty men
Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit or honesty, but with superior physical strength. I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion.