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
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Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured and far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak.
above advice aim good morality simply
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
grateful thanksgiving
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
life marrow
I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.
I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.
dozen exactly five half might miles particular visited
I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.
branches evil striking thousand
There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
anew knew progress unlearn
When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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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.
philosophy professors
There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
born success
We were born to succeed, not to fail.