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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Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life Go to Quote / Comment
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? Society Go to Quote / Comment
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. Go to Quote / Comment
Though the country seemed so new, and no house was observed by us, shut in between the banks that sunny day, we did not have to travel far to ... Go to Quote / Comment
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. Go to Quote / Comment