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
writing achievement done
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
sheep literature culture
It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
literature advantage enjoy
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
suspicion findings paid
We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
niece animal sky
The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
humanity literature becoming
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
depression valentines-day opportunity
Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
sympathy men law
It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
valentines-day night literature
Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
deep-life understanding way
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
food greed cooking
He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
simple two simplicity
Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.
advice born
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
trust fate track
Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.