There they lived on, those New England people, farmer lives, father and grandfather and great-grandfather, on and on without noise, keeping up tradition, and expecting, beside fair weather and abundant harvests, we did not learn what. They were contented to live, since it was so contrived for them, and where their lines had fallen.
Henry David ThoreauThe life of a wise man is most of all extemporaneous, for he lives out of an eternity which includes all time.
Henry David ThoreauI should be glad if all the meadows on the earth were left in a wild state, if that were the consequence of men's beginning to redeem themselves.
Henry David ThoreauThe man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
Henry David Thoreau