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
yoga dont-change
Things don't change. We change.
beer culture use
The culture of the hop ... so analagous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets.
self-esteem book dull
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.
friendship real thinking
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
hard-work men self
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.
wine men water
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
atheist support priests
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
friendship cute take-me
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
loneliness men thinking
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.
weed garden bird
Shall I not rejoice also at the abundance of the weeds whose seeds are the granary of the birds?
knowledge men support
The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
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.