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
transcendentalism enjoy knows
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
hands years six
For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.
morning hopeful soul
On tops of mountains, as everywhere to hopeful souls, it is always morning.
deeds-done transcendentalism good-deeds
As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
attractive sentences attractiveness
The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
funny country animal
When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.
race tree stories
I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .
money permit difficult
It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
book mysterious natural
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
heaven path earth
There is only one path to Heaven. On Earth, we call it Love.
goal discipline life-is
That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
praise fame
Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.
flower laughing world
The world laughs in flowers.
mind may leisure
What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have-leisure and a quiet mind.