Are we not all wreckers, contriving that some treasure may be washed up on our beach, and we may secure it, and do we not contract the habits of wrec… - Henry David Thoreau
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Are we not all wreckers, contriving that some treasure may be washed up on our beach, and we may secure it, and do we not contract the habits of wreckers from the common modes of getting a living?
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was 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 (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Birth Name:
David Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Henry D. Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau
A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
I sympathize with weeds perhaps more than with the crop they choke, they express so much vigor. They are the truer crop which the earth more willingly bears.
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If a thousand [citizens] were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
