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
lost-friendship honor littles
What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
mistake errors virtue
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
friendship doe use
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .
friendship treats surface
Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
strength men world
It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
strength swamps woods
When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
friendship dream kind
Friends . . . They are kind to each other's hopes. They cherish each other's dreams.
dream new-year years
Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it again, it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening, reminiscences of our sanest hours. The voice of nature is always encouraging.
summer nature cheer
The indescribable innocence and beneficence of Nature-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! and such sympathy have they ever with our race, that all Nature would be affected, and the sun's brightness fade, and the winds would sigh humanely, and the clouds rain tears, and the woods shed their leaves and put on mourning in midsummer, if any man should ever for a just cause grieve.
nature admirable
Nature is an admirable schoolmistress.
loving-life alive awake
To be awake is to be alive.
miracle world happens
When we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.
relationship kids eye
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
fishing tragedy life-is
The greatest tragedy in life is to spend your whole life fishing only to discover it was never fish that you were after.