Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.
Henry David ThoreauMan makes very much such a nest for his domestic animals, of withered grass and fodder, as the squirrels and many other wild creatures do for themselves.
Henry David ThoreauIt is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.
Henry David Thoreau