Happened Quote by Edward Carpenter Download Open image “The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.” — Edward Carpenter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happened Reading
And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“My life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be novel. It was a drama of many scenes and without an end.… — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
“Thoreau has been my companion for some days past, it having struck me as more appropriate to bring him out to a pond than to read him, as was hitherto my habit, on Sunday mornings in the garden. He is a person who loves the open air, and will refuse to give you much pleasure if you try to read… — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share
Walden is the only book I own, although there are some others unclaimed on my shelves. Every man, I think, reads one book in his life, and this one is mine. It is not the best book I ever encountered, perhaps, but it is for me the handiest, and I keep it about me in much the same way one… — E. B. White Copy Share
“One furnishes one's abode in diametric proportion to one's psychic furnishings. The greater our psychic dimension, the less furniture we need. Think what Thoreau… — Drew Rodgers Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. -Ralph Waldo Emerson, writer and philosopher (1803-1882)” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share
“If you went purely by numbers, then books would win hands down. I’ve loved maybe a handful of people in my entire life, compared… — Katarina Bivald Copy Share Image
“managed to break my nose on my own knee, which, although it was clearly an extraordinary achievement, had the same effect on me that… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science.… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely setting foot… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
With my somewhat vague aspiring mind, to be imprisoned in the rude details of a most material life was often irksome. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“In the case of Michel Angelo we have an artist who with brush and chisel portrayed literally thousands of human forms; but with this… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, with their extraordinary gift for, and experience in, affairs of the heart from the double point of view, both of the man and… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“So that eternal love, in love's fresh case, Weighs not the dust and injury of age;” — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that… — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Early in 1888 one or two of us got together to establish our own Sheffield Socialist Society. — Edward Carpenter Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
My feeling has always been that 'Good Eats' would have never happened had it been left to a committee. — Alton Brown Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got… — Wentworth Miller Copy Share Image
Freedom in every sense but primarily political sense, a rise in repression that stems from a repression of sexuality. It's AIDS, it's herpes, it's… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
The truth is I've just never had any kind of plan at all for my career, which is probably not a very flattering thing… — Ty Burrell Copy Share Image
The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
How come I end up where I started How come I end up where I belong... You used to be alright What happened? — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of… — David Lange Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
![“[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one…” quote by Charles Darwin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/909/charles-darwin-507_add_herschel-and-humboldt-stirred-up-in-me-a_2886288.jpg)
![“[A]s people are beginning to see that the sexes form in a certain sense a continuous group, so they are beginning to see that Love and Friendship which have been so often set apart from each other as things distinct are in reality closely related and shade imperceptibly into each other. Women are…” quote by Edward Carpenter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4ed/edward-carpenter-18169_feminism_a-s-people-are-beginning-to-see-that-the_1222912.jpg)
