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
real space transcendentalism
Surely, we are provided with senses as well fitted to penetrate the spaces of the real, the substantial, the eternal, as these outward are to penetrate the material universe. Veias, Menu, Zoroaster, Socrates, Christ, Shakespeare, Swedenborg,--these are some of our astronomers.
deeds-done transcendentalism good-deeds
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
transcendentalism enjoy knows
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
practice wish transcendentalism
I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary.
rebellion demon transcendental
What demon possessed me that I behaved so well?
dead-poets-society transcendentalism wilderness
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).
may use transcendentalism
Everything may serve a lower as well as a higher use.
men transcendentalism he-man
Every man is entitled to come to Cattle-Show, even a transcendentalist; and for my part I am more interested in the men than in the cattle.
time memories transcendentalism
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
camping world transcendentalism
In wildness is the preservation of the world.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
great mankind poets works
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
almost far staying travel worth
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.