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Henry Thoreau
(12 Jul 1817 - 6 May 1862)
American writer and naturalist.
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Science Quotes by Henry Thoreau (4)
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe.... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it! It only serves to turn a few mills, blow a few vessels across the ocean, and a few trivial ends besides. What a poor compliment do we pay to our indefatigable and energetic servant!
— Henry Thoreau
Paradise (To Be) Regained (1843)
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He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as well as application.
— Henry Thoreau
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 143:40.
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If a man walked in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer, but if he spends his whole day as a speculator shearing of those woods and making earth bald before her time, he is estimated as an industrious and enterprising citizen—as if a town had no interest in forests but to cut them down.
— Henry Thoreau
Walden. Quoted in Dr. N Sreedharan, Quotations of Wit and Wisdom (2007), 19.
The works of the great poets have only been read for most part as the multitude read the stars, at most, astrologically, not astronomically.
— Henry Thoreau
In James Wood, Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources (1893), 464:3.
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