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
best-friend kindness office
Even the utmost good-will and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. We do not wish for Friends to feed and clothe our bodies-neighbors are kind enough for that-but to do the like office to our spirits.
sweet wine apples
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized taste, such at least as were frozen while sound, let a warmer sun come to thaw them, for they are extremely sensitive to its rays, are found to be filled with a rich, sweet cider, better than any bottled cider that I know of, and with which I am better acquainted than with wine. All apples are good in this state, and your jaws are the cider-press.
jobs important enough
It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
principles world
The world rests on principles.
intellectual important moral
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
ignorance growth use
How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
appreciate vastness lost
Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
summer winter fire
The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter
grateful mean reality
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
summer morning winter
As I love nature, as I love singing birds, and gleaming stubble, and flowing rivers, and morning and evening, and summer and winter, I love thee, my Friend.
god forget-you forget
It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.
lines
Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
song trying graves
If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
daily-life knows
In their daily life, all are braver than they know.