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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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth Go to Quote / Comment
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle Go to Quote / Comment
The only fruit which even much living yields seems to be often only some trivial success,—the ability to do some slight thing better. We mak... Go to Quote / Comment
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. Go to Quote / Comment
Art is not tame, and Nature is not wild, in the ordinary sense. A perfect work of man's art would also be wild or natural in a good sense. Go to Quote / Comment