When we walk, we naturally go to the fields and woods: what would become of us, if we walked only in a garden or a mall?
Henry David ThoreauWhen the farmer has got his house, he may not be the richer but the poorer for it, and it be the house that has got him... a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
Henry David ThoreauWe are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bone.
Henry David ThoreauIt's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.
Henry David Thoreau