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
rain shade walden-pond
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener.
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.
dirty men giving
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them. Often the poor man is not cold and hungry as he is dirty and ragged and gross. It is partly his taste, and not merely his misfortune.
poverty bones sweetest
Poverty ... It is life near the bone, where it is sweetest.
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.
friendship heart experience
Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
friendship arrows enemy
While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.
hope expectations
We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
nature sorrow environment
Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
philosophy circles philosopher
Say, Not so, and you will out circle the philosophers.
successful simple discovery
The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
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.