![]() ![]() ![]() Quotes I am grateful for what I am & have. 1.5 A Plea for Captain John Brown (1859).1.3 A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849). ![]() I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. 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. Henry David Thoreau ( 12 July 1817 – ) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. If I should sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I am sure that for me there would be nothing left worth living for. None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ![]()
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