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
cat home woods
The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
swamps wilderness primitive
The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
confidence respect doubt
If one hesitates in his path, let him not proceed. Let him respect his doubts, for doubts, too, may have some divinity in them.
doubt ifs
Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.
men dying john-brown
Of all the men who were said to be my contemporaries, it seemed to me that John Brown was the only one who had not died.
wine juice singers
Our poets have sung of wine, the product of a foreign plant which commonly they never saw, as if our own plants had no juice in them more than the singers.
time car railroads
The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
time criticism may
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
god nature freedom
I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
god hero men
Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral distinctions, they are as likely to serve the devil, without intending it, as God. A very few -- as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men -- serve the state with their consciences also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part ...
men solitude may
Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.
success sports running
In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.