You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body

When it's time to die, let us not discover that we have never lived.

To watch this crystal globe just sent from heaven to associate with me. While these clouds and this somber drizzling weather shut all in, we two draw nearer and know one another.

I was daily intoxicated, yet no man could call me intemperate.

If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

When 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.