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
blessed environmental newspapers
Blessed are they who never read a newspaper, for they shall see Nature, and through her, God.
rivers environmental way
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
mean environment ends
The improved means to the unimproved end.
needs environment wildness
We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
nature sorrow environment
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
garden environmental vigor
Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.
boys clothes environmental
Who ever saw his old clothes, - his old coat, actually worn out, resolved into its primitive elements, so that it was not a deed of charity to bestow it on some poor boy, by him perchance to be bestowed on some poorer still, or shall we say richer, who could do with less? I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.
environmental railroads
We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.
environment enough
We can never have enough of Nature.
sea land environmental
We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.
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.
great mankind poets works
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
almost far staying travel worth
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.