Thoreau

Thoreau's main goal was to maintain his own moral virtue and his freedom to act on the truth as he saw it.

That's a phrase from Thoreau we would invoke at the beginning of every meeting.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet, desperation. " I never want to be a part of that group. How about you?

Today people continue to be inspired by his writing and his actions. Do you think Thoreau was a failure?

Thoreau withheld the tax as a protest against slavery and the war with Mexico, which he did not support.

Thoreau usually saved himself by writing of what he knew: namely nature and his own character.

Maybe it's this kind of frustration that caused Henry Thoreau to remark, "the mass of men live lives of quiet desperation. "

Thoreau had his own firm sense of that balance: save on the petty in order to spend on the essential.

Thoreau: "The next time the novelist rings the bell, I will not stir though the meeting-house burn down. "

Yet Thoreau himself was able to spend only two years in he cabin the built beside Walden Pond.

Henry David Thoreau ? Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

Thoreau did various jobs for the Emerson family. including taking care of the children.

Thoreau was sincerity itself, and might fortify the convictions of prophets in the ethical laws by his holy living.

Inside, Thoreau had a desk, a table, three chairs, and a mirror, all of which he had made himself.

Such was Thoreau's situation. It called for resistance to various pressures, but none was heavy enough to cause serious discomfort.

Harvard Debater B: My opponent is right about one thing. Thoreau was a Harvard grad, and, like many of us, a bit self-righteous.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation (Henry David Thoreau).

Thoreau was also one of the first American supporters of Darwin's theory of evolution.

Thoreau died, however, before he could publish his detailed observations of local wildflowers and wildfowl .

Henry David Thoreau: To live deliberately . . . and suck all the marrow out of life.

Richardson, who she met after sending a fan letter about his book Henry Thoreau: A Life of the Mind.

Thoreau was an active Transcendentalist.

Thoreau is still read without being assigned, and lives as a patron saint of ecologists .

I was surprised to find such a wealth of ideas--thoughts every bit as beautifully expressed and quotable as any in Thoreau's best books.

M. L. was also inspired by the work of Henry David Thoreau, particularly his essay called Civil Disobedience.

When this book failed to find a publisher, Emerson urged Thoreau to publish at his own expense.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven. - H. D. Thoreau.

Later Thoreau converted the factory to producing plumbago, used to ink typesetting machines.

Henry David Thoreau moved to Walden Pond "to live deliberately" , as he put it.

Thoreau was a philosopher of nature and its relation to the human condition.

If Henry David Thoreau were alive today you might think he was a little odd or you might admire him.

For that, Thoreau makes up his mind to find out the highest principle for human life.

When Thoreau wrote that line, he was thinking of the Walden. Pond he knew as a boy.

After college, Thoreau taught school, wrote essays and poems for The Dial, and briefly attempted freelance writing in New York City.

He studied Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and the American writer and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

He departs on a Thoreau-like premise, and comes to realize that nature has its own moods and methods and ways.

It is not enough to be industrious, so are the ants. What are you industrious for? ---Henry David Thoreau, American naturalist and author.

The remark charmingly sums up the behaviour of an age nature-lovers and it might apply in part to Thoreau.

Along the way, Abbey makes time for Thoreau while he takes a hard look at the MX missile system, slated for the American West.

Thoreau philosophized that "every generation laughs at the old fashions but follows religiously the new. "

Thoreau 's writing was always simple , gay or sharp in tone, though its meaning was mostly serious .

Thoreau provides insight into the core of these issues.

Several great American writers were friends of the family. They included Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau.

Sometimes his writing has a metaphorical richness that reminds us of the debt Thoreau owes to such authors as Sir Thomas Brown.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings---Henry David Thoreau, French naturalist.

"that misery which he strives in vain to relieve" (Henry David Thoreau).

1, Walden Pond praised by Thoreau for its beauty is now the site of many tourist stands.

As Thoreau had once said: things do not change; we change.

Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. " Don't be resigned to that. Break out.

Thoreau, alone in his cabin on the pond, his back deliberately turned to the town.

Rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness. . . give me the truth. ---- henry david Thoreau.

Born on July 12, 1817, in Concord, Massachusetts, Thoreau was a philosopher, naturalist, and writer who believed in living simply.

In the poetry of Whitman and the prose writings of Emerson and Thoreau, a ship at sea is sometimes a metaphor for the soul.

Thoreau forms his complicated view of nature with the influences of romanticism, transcendentalism and Chinese natural philosophy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson , the leader of the Transcendentalists , moved to Concord where he met Thoreau .

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest. ~Henry David Thoreau.

Our life is frittered away by detail, simplify it , simplify it. David Thoreau Henry American writer.

Keeping flexible is one way to pretend we have not become, as Thoreau warned, "the tools of our tools" .

I found the "Love Your Life" by Henry David Thoreau, a beautiful English poem, searched in Web.

Perhaps we were latter day Luddites or devotees of Rousseau or Thoreau.

Thoreau's personal growth experience, social and cultural background play an important role in the process of Thoreau's nature thoughts.

Thoreau's ideas also influenced directly or indirectly Muir , Leopold and Deep Ecology.

Thoreau, however, did more than just protest slavery by going to jail.

Henry David Thoreau observed that people live lives of "quiet desperation, " but today a better description is aimless distraction.

Emerson and Thoreau were contemplating the essentials of life and William Lloyd Garrison founded the abolition movement.

To breathe after your own fashion, to live after your own nature. - H. D. Thoreau.

In 1845 Thoreau(American naturalist and philosopher)was arrested and sent to prison for one night because he refused to paya tax .

All good things are cheap, all bad things are very dear. ----H. D. Thoreau.

During this strange history, Thoreau back the most authentic meaning of life.

Thoreau born and died in Concord. In fact , all through his life, Thoreau's real professional is roaming and researching Concord's nature.

Thoreau never locked his door, and he often had visitors.

Henry David Thoreau The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved.

The American high priest of solitude was Thoreau.

By many accounts, Thoreau was a failure.

In America it is to be seen almost pure in Melville, Thoreau, and Brook Farm and, somewhat softened, in Emerson and Hawthorne.

Thoreau has set a good example for modern people to live an outwardly simple and inwardly rich life.

I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. " --Henry David Thoreau" .

Thoreau wrote in the tree, "Walden, " Spinoza in the search tree with the meaning of life.

Thoreau said, "Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. "

Henry David Thoreau Lo! Men have become the tools of their tools.

"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book" (Henry David Thoreau).

William Wordsworth, Milton, Thoreau etc, these people all approve alone, because of the pride of son can alone.

Thoreau: Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

In 1849, Henry David Thoreau wrote Civil Disobedience.

Thoreau obviously was investing his time and energy into the pursuit of non-material, personal wealth that can't be bought or sold.

In the Walden, Thoreau's wish is being realized.

At various times, Thoreau earned a living by lecturing or working at his family's pencil factory.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.

Or is it that enjoying nature often involves physical activity and, unless you're Henry David Thoreau, interacting with others?

Henry David Thoreau I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental, like on a breeze.

Or is it that enjoying nature often involves physical activity and, unless you're Henry David Thoreau, interacting with others?

Henry David Thoreau I don't know if we each have a destiny, or if we're all just floating around accidental, like on a breeze.

We can no longer afford to be like Thoreau.

"All things good are wild and free, " wrote Henry David Thoreau 150 years ago.

Thoreau's is magnificent literature almost in spite of itself.

Perhaps this is behind Thoreau's dictum : In wildness is the salvation of the world.

In Walden, Thoreau observed all the nature around in a quiet life , make new discoveries and feeling.

Yet Thoreau has something to communicate that we miss in Emerson 's writings.

He said: "If one has anything to say , it drops from him simply and directly as a stone falls to the ground . " (Henry David Thoreau)

What is this, summer camp? Henry David Thoreau never had to put up with this.

Henry David Thoreau wrote, "The mass of men lead lives of quiet, desperation. " I

"None of the brute creation requires more than food and shelter" (Henry David Thoreau)

"Be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade but thought. " - Thoreau (USS Seleya)

Differences and Similarities between ZhuangZi and Thoreau'views on Nature

"The whole body. . . Imbibes delight through every pore" (Henry David Thoreau)

According to Henry Petroski, Thoreau discovered how to make a good pencil out of inferior graphite by using clay as the binder;

Thoreau argues that our acquisitive tendencies prevent us fromliving unburdened, joyous lives

"rocks, trees . . . the actual world" (Henry David Thoreau);

Read the best books first, or you may not have a change to read at all. (Henry David Thoreau)

Thoreau's Ideal Individualism and Moral Construction

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read at all. --Henry David Thoreau

Historic Significance of Thoreau's View on Life and Its Modern Influence upon China

Walden-- A Brief Exploration of Thoreau's Thought of Nature

The Sage at the Walden Pond: Thoreau and Confucianism

Comments on the Ecological Criticism of Thoreau

Thoreau was a Harvard grad,

A Review of the Writing Style of Henry David Thoreau

Thoreau the idealist could never know

Taoist Elements in Thoreau's Writings

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The First and Last Journeys of Thoreau,

There is absolutely no common sense; it is common nonsense. - H. D. Thoreau

The source of Thoreau's ideas on nature