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
real progress made
When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
hero men ordinary
Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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.
spiritual nature serenity
To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.
civilization giving glances
Give me a Wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.
looks
The question is not what you look at--but how you look, and whether you see.
mind walden-pond endeavor
Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
long looks long-time
We must look a long time before we can see
healing teens overcoming-adversity
March to the beat of your own drummer.
sight sea sky
I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths and skies and seas around, And in my day the sun doth pale his light.
gratitude morning up-early
Some would find fault with the morning, if they ever got up early enough.. The fault find faults even in Paradise.
two understanding faults
There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce a misunderstanding in proportion to its heinousness.
home night thinking
Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.