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 man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man. Go to Quote / Comment
There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature. Go to Quote / Comment
It is remarkable that the dead lie everywhere under stones.... Why should the monument be so much more enduring than the fame which it is desi... Go to Quote / Comment
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. Go to Quote / Comment
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society. Go to Quote / Comment