Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American philosopher, poet, and transcendentalist best known for his book 'Walden', which reflects on simple living in natural surroundings.

"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand...Simplify, simplify!"

Henry David Thoreau

"Misfortunes occur only when a man is false.... Events circumstances etc. Have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown."

Henry David Thoreau

"The bluebird carries the sky on his back."

Henry David Thoreau

"What are these pines & these birds about? What is this pond a-doing? I must know a little more."

Henry David Thoreau

"I thus found that the student who wishes for a shelter can obtain one for a lifetime at an expense not greater than the rent which he now pays annually. If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself; and my shortcomings and inconsistencies do not affect the truth of my statement."

Henry David Thoreau

"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."

Henry David Thoreau

"What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?"

Henry David Thoreau