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
care men
There may be Gods, but they care not what men do
time car railroads
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
integrity machines carrying-on
Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work.
carpe-diem islands eternity-of-life
find your eternity in each moment
fancy-cars anxiety heaven
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
trust thinking care
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do. We may waive just so much care of ourselves as we honestly bestow elsewhere.
adventure care dawn
Rise free from care before the dawn, and seek adventures.
life carpe-diem greater
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
children care faces
If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.
care share seems
Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.
adventure canadians carried clear england exposure hardship led possessed spirit though
The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet
caring harmony made
Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.