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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
«I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioning ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
encouraging, evaluate, evaluated, unquestioning
«I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
elevate, unquestionable
«I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Cute friendship
| Keywords:
chairs
«We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described»
«What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
allied, antiquity, hue, indigenous, modern times, nearest, partridge, partridges, products, rabbits, venerable
«The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit / not a fossil earth, but a living earth; compared with whose great central life all animal and vegetable life is merely parasitic. Its throes will heave our exuviate from their graves.»
«I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Pets
| Keywords:
approached, barked, quieted
«We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.»
«We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.»
«In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
bathe, Bhagavad Gita, comparison, Gita, modern philosophy, modern world, Philosophy of, puny
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