I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.
Henry David ThoreauIt seems as if the more youthful and impressible streams can hardly resist the numerous invitations and temptations to leave theirnative beds and run down their neighbors' channels.
Henry David ThoreauIt is an unfortunate discovery certainly, that of a law which binds us where we did not know before that we were bound.
Henry David ThoreauFor if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?
Henry David Thoreau