Expect Great Things Quotes

“we find only the world we look for.”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

“Zarathustra received his revelations from the archangels at age thirty, when he began his prophetic mission; Siddhartha's great renunciation of his princely life took place in his thirtieth year. Thoreau at age thirty finished his self-imposed isolation at Walden Pond.”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

“We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see.”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

“Up until November 16, 1850, Thoreau’s destiny had been to craft an authentic life in the face of a society growing less and less authentic, and he did this principally by attending to the divinity within and around human nature. Now, almost at a single stroke, he would become America’s premier chronicler of Nature, specifically by attending scrupulously to its rhythmicity.”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau

“When we cease to sympathize with and to be personally related to men, and begin to be universally related, then we are capable of inspiring others with the sentiment of love for us. . . . We hug the earth—how rare we mount! how rarely, we climb a tree! We might get a little higher methinks. . . . Shall not a man have his spring as well as the plants? The halo around the shadow is visible both morning and evening.” Thoreau knew that the human being is always divine, no matter how fully he might forget it.207”
― Kevin Dann, Expect Great Things: The Life and Search of Henry David Thoreau