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
world infinite
This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!
ocean solitude world
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.
strange-places world strange
The world is a strange place for a playhouse to stand within it.
travel home world
I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.
art ambition world
It is the art of mankind to polish the world, and every one who works is scrubbing in some part.
experience world deeds
In the unbending of the arm to do the deed there is experience worth all the maxims in the world.
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?
men would-be world
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
discipline addresses world
Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline.
beauty greek world
The world, which the Greeks called Beauty, has been made such by being gradually divested of every ornament which was not fitted to endure.
thinking world companion
In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.
flower world honey
The scenery, when it is truly seen, reacts on the life of the seer. How to live. How to get the most of life.... How to extract its honey from the flower of the world.
world soil exhausted
Mythology is the crop which the Old World bore before its soil was exhausted.
pain men world
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is the seat of sympathy,-he forthwith sets about reforming the world.