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
body either good soul work
Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
body earth spirit
The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body, has a spirit; is organic and fluid to the influence of its spirit and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.
atmosphere genius body
The very thrills of genius are disorganizing. The body is never quite acclimated to its atmosphere, but how often, succumbs and goes into a decline.
responsibility men soul-and-body
I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable law may be to protect your property, even to keep soul and body together, if it do not keep you and humanity together.
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 machines body
The mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
fall men soul-and-body
But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of a physician who shall minister to both soul and body at once, that is, to man. Now he falls between two stools.
body evening delight
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
mind body woods
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
heaven flow body
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
men body clay
What is man but a mass of thawing clay?
home mountain body
You must ascend a mountain to learn your relation to matter, and so to your own body, for it is at home there, though you are not.
body
The body can feed the body only.
soul body hunger-and-thirst
How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies; how slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!