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
bottom current detect drink eternity fishing sandy shallow stream thin time time-and-time-management
Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
entire fishing knowing lives men purpose
Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
fish fishing knowing lives men
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
country fishing progress
Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
spring ice fishing
The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.
sports fishing digging
The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.
men order fishing
Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.
summer winter fishing
It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.
sea fishing rivers
I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry for poets. It is the only trade I have learned.
mother sea fishing
We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.
men sea fishing
Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
sea fishing rivers
Who hears the fishes when they cry?
fishing sublime age
In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
fishing fisherman scales
The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel; and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.