An American author, development critic, transcendentalist, pacifist, and philosopher.. American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist
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The constant abrasion and decay of our lives makes the soil of our future growth. Go to Quote / Comment
The ocean is but a larger lake. At midsummer you may sometimes see a strip of glassy smoothness on it, a few rods in width and many miles long... Go to Quote / Comment
Men will tell you sometimes that 'money's hard.' That shows it was not made to eat, I say.... Some of those who sank with the steamer the othe... Go to Quote / Comment
There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Go to Quote / Comment
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Go to Quote / Comment