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
time people moles
How earthy old people become --moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
nature afternoon shrubs
I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.
yoga dont-change
Things don't change. We change.
self-esteem book dull
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
atheist support priests
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
weed garden bird
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
dream beer men
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.
ties aging drowning
Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.
time sea land
Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and makes a drop there to eternity.
nature sorrow environment
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
betrayal weakness complaining
Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
life-changing thinking assuming
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
winter roots littles
We must take root; send out some little fibre at least, even every winter day.
honesty mean men
Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.