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
listening intermittent
Music never stops; it is only the listening that is intermittent.
doers injury accomplices
He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.
finite absolutes relative
Are not all finite beings better pleased with motions relative than absolute?
ankles sand buried
In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.
arrows demand bargaining
If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.
treatment adore
There is no treatment for adore, but to love far more.
scenery seers
The scenery when it is truly seen reacts on the life of the seer.
relaxation aimless-life this-life
Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
relaxation aimless-life insult
He who parades his virtues seldom leads the parade. He who puts up with insult invites injury. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life. This life in the present.
valentines-day wise wisdom
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
sloth literature persons
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
finding-the-one doubt literature
There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
travel journey wish
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
inevitable streets ifs
If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets.