Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor,...
Henry David Thoreau Biography
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.” Henry David Thoreau
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.” Henry David Thoreau
We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.”
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.” Henry David Thoreau
Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away.
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.” Henry David Thoreau
A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Henry David Thoreau
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.”
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.” Henry David Thoreau
Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.”
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.”
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.” Henry David Thoreau
“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
Men have become the tools of their tools.” Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.”