Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 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 "Civil Disobedience", an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance, they make the latitudes and longitudes.
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first rather than the heart, it being much more sensitive.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
Do what you love. Know your own bone, gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it and gnaw it still.
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.