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
heavenly humility reveals
Humility like the darkness, reveals the heavenly lights.
heaven grace never-quit
The gifts of Heaven are never quite gratuitous.
men civilization heaven
There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man,--all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!
truth heaven existence
Here or nowhere is our heaven.
wall heaven house
A temple, you know, was anciently "an open place without a roof," whose walls served merely to shut out the world and direct the mind toward heaven; but a modern meeting-house shuts out the heavens, while it crowds the world into still closer quarters.
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.
eye heaven etc
My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.
heaven path earth
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
inspirational men heaven
Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
flower heaven earth
Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.
men heaven might
Heaven might be defined as the place which men avoid.
independent house heaven
The chimney is to some extent an independent structure, standing on the ground, and rising through the house to the heavens; evenafter the house is burned it still stands sometimes, and its importance and independence are apparent.
heaven flow body
Who knows what the human body would expand and flow out to under a more genial heaven?
heaven sauntering walkers
It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.