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
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.
belly booming builds close hear smell solitary tonic whispering wilder
We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
civilization devoured glance lived marrow raw whose wildness
Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw
swamps wilderness primitive
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
village-life forests wilderness
Our village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
alive wildness
The most alive is the wildest.
civilization wildness
What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
secret wild-and-free woods
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
world wilderness salvation
In the wilderness is the salvation of the world.
needs environment wildness
We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
dream bogs wilderness
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
dead-poets-society transcendentalism wilderness
I wanted to live deep and suck out the all the marrow of life (...).
nature yearning wildness
There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.
wild-life seasons
To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.