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
men righteous surround swamps town woods
A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it
deep die discover life marrow suck woods
I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.
cat home woods
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
memorable woods forests
It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.
night woods forests
It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.
winter woods fields
The wonderful purity of nature at this season is a most pleasing fact.... In the bare fields and tinkling woods, see what virtue survives. In the coldest and bleakest places, the warmest charities still maintain a foothold.
life years woods
Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
sweet house woods
What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
thinking use woods
Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
secret wild-and-free woods
It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods ...
thinking mindfulness woods
In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
strength swamps woods
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
cutting bird woods
He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
inspirational woods reason
I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one.