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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He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports what those men already know practically or instinctively, for that alone is a true humanity, or account of human experience. Go to Quote / Comment
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Go to Quote / Comment
You must get your living by loving, or at least half your life is a failure. Go to Quote / Comment
It required some rudeness to disturb with our boat the mirror-like surface of the water, in which every twig and blade of grass was so faithfu... Go to Quote / Comment
We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described. Go to Quote / Comment