Henry David Thoreau
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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
honesty powerful simple
I sometimes despair of getting anything quite simple and honest done in this world by the help of men. They would have to be passed through a powerful press first, to squeeze their old notions out of them, so that they would not soon get upon their legs again.
horse men important
The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
apples house fields
There is one thought for the field, another for the house. I would have my thoughts, like wild apples, to be food for walkers, and will not warrant them to be palatable if tasted in the house.
self-reliance firsts remember
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
summer morning taken
I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.
sacredness ifs
The sacredness, if there is any, is all in yourself and not in the place.
i-have-learned traveller
I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
apples doors healthy
What a healthy out-of-door appetite it takes to relish the apple of life, the apple of the world, then!
couple nuts tree
Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who stood their ground.
associates
Associate reverently, and as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
humility devil speak
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
succeed littles made
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
genius divinity
Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.
civilization giving glances
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.