Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.

The one great rule of composition is to speak the truth.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Seek to dispel delusion and all that is false.

Transcendental spiritual truths are revealed through nature.

Create a deliberate wakefulness to the essential facts of life.

A mystical, spiritual discipline is essential for attainment of an inner clarity of vision.

The divine source of all things exists in nature, yet divine reality is not exhausted by nature.

There exists within each human being a moral sense and an intuitive capacity for spiritual truths.

The search for ultimate reality begins with simplification and with the desire for clarity of vision and spiritual alertness.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

There will never be a free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats them accordingly.

So we saunter toward the Holy Land, till one day the sun shall shine more brightly than ever he has done, shall perchance shine into our minds and hearts, and light up our whole lives with a great awakening light, as warm and serene and golden as on a bankside in autumn.

The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour.

Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.

Then there is least somnolence in us;
and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.

Little is to be expected of that day to which we are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music, instead of factory bells.

A fragrance fills the air with a higher life than we fell asleep from;
and thus the darkness bear its fruit, and prove itself to be good, no less than the light.

All memorable events, I should say, transpire in morning time and in a morning atmosphere.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning.

It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men.

Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.

The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life.

To be awake is to be alive.

I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

It is something to be able to paint a particular image, 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.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the Earth; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it.

Henry David Thoreau, philosopher, environmentalist, author

See Ian Player

See John Muir

See Edward Abbey

See Rachel Carson

See Charles Darwin

See John Wesley Powell

See Marcus Aurelius V

See Thomas Aquinas

See Rene Descartes

See David Hume

See John Stuart Mills

See Ralph Waldo Emerson

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