Reads tagged with “Henry David Thoreau”
Thoreau on Nature and Human Nature, the Tonic of Wildness, and the Value of the Unexplored
“At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable.”
Calculating the Incalculable: Thoreau on the True Value of a Tree
“What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?”
Two Hundred Years of Blue
Cerulean splendor from Goethe, Thoreau, Virginia Woolf, Vladimir Nabokov, Rachel Carson, Toni Morrison, and other literary masters.
Thoreau on Knowing vs. Seeing and What It Takes to Apprehend Reality Unblinded by Our Preconceptions
“We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.”
Thoreau on Writing and the Splendors of Mystery in an Age of Knowledge
“Do not seek expressions, seek thoughts to be expressed.”
Beloved Writers on the Mightiest Antidote to Depression
On the consolations of monarchs and of stars.
Thoreau on the Long Cycles of Social Change and the Importance of Not Mistaking Politics for Progress
“The longer the lever the less perceptible its motion… The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.”
Thoreau on Nature as Prayer
“In the street and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean.”
A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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