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
accounts affairs count half hundred instead life million simplicity
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
garden simplicity simple-life
Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage.
inspirational flower simplicity
But there are spirits of a yet more liberal culture, to whom no simplicity is barren. There are not only stately pines, but fragile flowers, like the orchises, commonly described as too delicate for cultivation, which derive their nutriment from the crudest mass of peat. These remind us, that, not only for strength, but for beauty, the poet must, from time to time, travel the logger's path and the Indian's trail, to drink at some new and more bracing fountain of the Muses, far in the recesses of the wilderness.
travel men simplicity
A man may travel fast enough and earn his living on the road.
simplicity thank-god furniture
Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.
moving simplicity world
Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?
simple simplicity plot
I love a life whose plot is simple.
independent simple simplicity
A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
adventure simplicity theme
My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
simplicity littles
The rule is to carry as little as possible.
simple simplicity use
To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all our lives be simplified merely, like an algebraic formula? Or not, rather, that I may make use of the ground I have cleared to live more worthily and profitably?
ignorance simplicity laziness
The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
practice feet simplicity
As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
civilization simplicity
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.