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
learning light soul
With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
get-well men rights
Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of immunities and rights.
science men fishing
Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
science library newspapers
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
nature eye men
Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her.
trust thinking may
I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
integrity men leisure
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.
last-words funny-famous-last-words knows
I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
dream bogs wilderness
It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
rubber way obstacles
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
feet atmosphere desire
My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it, of that divine nectar, to bear my head through atmospheres and over heights unknown to my feet, is perennial and constant.
summer believe world
Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
errors long sorrow
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.
cheating may ethics-and-morals
Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.