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
government wish literature
The newspapers, I perceive, devote some of their columns specially to politics or government without charge; and this, one would say, is all that saves it; but as I love literature and to some extent the truth also, I never read those columns at any rate. I do not wish to blunt my sense of right so much.
children knowing literature
We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between theilliterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects. We should be as good as the worthies of antiquity, but partly by first knowing how good they were.
book echoes literature
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
voice bird literature
Homer and Shakespeare and Milton and Marvell and Wordsworth are but the rustling of leaves and crackling of twigs in the forest, and there is not yet the sound of any bird. The Muse has never lifted up her voice to sing.
christian literature tales
All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
literature honest trustworthy
Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.
nature literature adequate
I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.
book culture literature
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
believe advice literature
There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life.
writing luck literature
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
important too-late literature
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
men literature common
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
deep-life literature might
How many things there are concerning which we might well deliberate whether we had better know them.
literature way yards
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.