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
experience health requires wholesome
One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
experience world deeds
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
angel men experience
If within the sophisticated man there is not an unsophisticated one, then he is but one of the devil's angels.
experience wealth devotion
It requires more than a day's devotion to know and to possess the wealth of a day.
home mountain experience
It is after we get home that we really go over the mountain, if ever.
past experience moments
The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.
joy experience superiors
We are superior to the joy we experience.
beautiful sex experience
The intercourse of the sexes, I have dreamed, is incredibly beautiful, too fair to be remembered. I have had thoughts about it, but they are among the most fleeting and irrecoverable in my experience.
inspirational men experience
The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.
expression experience aids
The scholar is not apt to make his most familiar experience come gracefully to the aid of his expression.
stars memorable experience
The stars are distant and unobtrusive, but bright and enduring as our fairest and most memorable experiences.
ideas experience observation
We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.
imagination experience fairs
We can conceive of nothing more fair than something which we have experienced.
faith experience
We are older by faith than by experience.