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
dark light looks
Why look in the dark for light?
inspirational church looks
Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.
gentleman looks today
I look upon England today as an old gentleman who is travelling with a great deal of baggage, trumpery which has accumulated fromlong housekeeping, which he has not the courage to burn.
stars shepherds looks
As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
men looks language
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
looks said observation
Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.
long looks long-time
We must look a long time before we can see
looks
The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.
gratitude grateful looks
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.
desire looks spirit
Though my life is low, if my spirit looks upward habitually at an elevated angle, it is as if it were redeemed. When the desire to be better than we are is really sincere we are instantly elevated, and so far better already.
men woods looks
Every man looks at his wood-pile with a kind of affection.
self looks backwards
It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around.
looks gestures interest
You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.
winter tree looks
"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it."