The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

—Henry David Thoreau

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About Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist essayist, poet, and philosopher. A leading transcendentalist, he is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay "Civil Disobedience" (originally published as "Resistance...

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

—Henry David Thoreau

That is mine which none can steal from me.

—Henry David Thoreau

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There is the sky, which is all men's together.

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I woke up in the middle of the night and climbed out of the tent to make coffee. There was no sound save the wind and, in all that space, not one light, just a scant new moon that hung in the sky like a fine silk thread. The twentieth century had vanished. I raised my cup in a toast.

—Richard West

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

—Bill Watterson

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

—Thomas Carlyle

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Wherever you go, the sky is the same color.

—Persian saying

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