In a journal it is important in a few words to describe the weather, or character of the day, as if affects our feelings. That which was so important… - Henry David Thoreau
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In a journal it is important in a few words to describe the weather, or character of the day, as if affects our feelings. That which was so important at the time cannot be unimportant to remember.
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
This is a delicious evening, when the whole body is one sense, and imbibes delight through every pore.
The rush to California, for instance, and the attitude, not merely of merchants, but of philosophers and prophets, so called, in relation to it, reflect the greatest disgrace on mankind. That so many are ready to live by luck, and so get the means of commanding the labor of others less lucky, without contributing any value to society!
It is easier to recover the history of the trees which stood here a century or more ago than it is to recover the history of the men who walked beneath them.
