December 2009
139 posts
“Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via WTHLISATALKINBOUT?)
“It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to...”
– Thoreau (via v-nothnagle)
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via errabundus)
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Fuck Yeah, Ralph Waldo Emerson. →
Fellow transcendentalists! I just started a tumblrblog dedicated to friend of Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Hope to see you there :)
“The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone...”
– Thoreau (via staygrateful)
Fuck Yeah, Transcendentalism. →
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The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail (excerpt from...
beverlyroad:
Ellen: I rather like the railroad. Far better than a horse and carriage.
Henry: Why?
Ellen: It’s smoother, and much faster.
Henry: And dirtier. And uglier. Thank God men haven’t learned to fly: they’d lay waste the sky as well as the earth… chop down the clouds!
Ellen (somewhat puzzled): Is that transcendentalism, Mr. Thoreau?
Henry (laughs): No. Yes, it is—-in a way. Take your...
“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via crashinglybeautiful)
“When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via iwritetobreathe)
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via mrtumblr)
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“A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably...”
– Thoreau, “Walking” (via captives)
“After a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some question had...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden. (via abstemiast)
“If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via measart)
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On his deathbed,
Aunt: Henry, have you made your peace with God?
Henry David Thoreau: Why, Aunt, I didn't know we had ever quarreled.
“The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via amandapearl)
“Nothing must be postponed. Take time by the forelock. Now or never! You must...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via oceano)
“We no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via tecmosuperblog)
“Thoreau’s ‘Walden, or Life in the Woods’ deserves its status...”
– Richard Zacks criticizing Thoreau.
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“Surely joy is the condition of life.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via evollbre)
“I also know it’s true, that thing about how perception switches around and we...”
– Stephen King (via anditis)
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"Conscience" by Henry David Thoreau
Conscience is instinct bred in the house, Feeling and Thinking propagate the sin By an unnatural breeding in and in. I say, Turn it out doors, Into the moors. I love a life whose plot is simple, And does not thicken with every pimple, A soul so sound no sickly conscience binds it, That makes the universe no worse than ‘t finds it. I love an earnest soul, Whose mighty joy and sorrow Are not...
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“The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via fuckyeahcanadaeh)
Mr. Thoreau, I like you.
(via serendipityandthetruth)
I can second that.
“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lookahead)
“The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or...”
– Thoreau (via eemmaa)
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“I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. on Thoreau’s influence (via whatsupstairs)
Henry David Thoreau was...
1. A philosopher and creative artist: Of the inspired intellectuals he lived among and worked with — his elder friend and mentor Ralph Waldo Emerson, his sometime editor Margaret Fuller, his fireside companions Bronson Alcott and Nathaniel Hawthorne among others — Thoreau was second to none in dedicating his life, skills, and classical learning to the Emersonian call for the creation of an...
“Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via skiphunt)
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Christmas with the Thoreaus
The Thoreau family represented a vanguard generation, primarily Unitarians of progressive beliefs, who practiced a joyful celebration of Christmas as a family tradition. Henry David Thoreau was a little boy when (according to his brother) the future philosopher and his siblings would hang their stockings at the fireplace, fully expecting Santa Claus to arrive by the chimney, leaving...
“…catalogue stars, those thoughts whose orbits are as rarely calculated as...”
– Thoreau (via raeraerae)
Thoreau: Core works and topics
(List by Wikipedia)
Civil Disobedience Herald of Freedom The Last Days of John Brown Life Without Principle Paradise (to be) Regained A Plea for Captain John Brown Reform and the Reformers Remarks After the Hanging of John Brown The Service Sir Walter Raleigh Slavery in Massachusetts Thomas Carlyle and His Works Walden A Walk to Wachusett Wendell Phillips Before the Concord Lyceum
Which one...
“Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thebarstoolromantic)
“I would fain keep sober always… I believe that water is the only drink for a...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via stairwaytocalifornia)
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“I did not for a moment feel confined, and the walls seemed a great waste of...”
– Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience (via zaclindsay)
“My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via serendipityandthetruth)
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“Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via iscreamforlove)
“I was witness to events of a less peaceful character. One day when I went out to...”
– Thoreau (via emmygrace)
“The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via flyakate)
“People – very wise in their own eyes – who would have every man’s life ordered...”
– George Eliott criticizing Thoreau.
This date, from Henry David Thoreau's journal →
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