All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
Henry David ThoreauEvery child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as horse, having an instinct for it...At last we know not what it is to live in the open air, and our lives are domestic in more senses than we think.
Henry David ThoreauWe perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.
Henry David ThoreauNature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David ThoreauWe should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.
Henry David Thoreau