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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Go to Quote / Comment
It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Go to Quote / Comment
There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite. Go to Quote / Comment
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Go to Quote / Comment
I do not propose to write an ode to dejection, but to brag as lustily as chanticleer in the morning, standing on his roost, if only to wake his neighbours up. Go to Quote / Comment