I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.
Henry David ThoreauMust be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
Henry David ThoreauIt's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see.
Henry David ThoreauIt is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow, whom we respect but very little; but as soon as it comes to this, that we do not respect ourselves, then we do not get along at all, no matter how much money we are paid for halting.
Henry David Thoreau