Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature, in which Scythians and Ethiopians and Indians dwell. What is echo, what are light and shade, day and night, ocean and stars, earthquake and eclipse, there? The works of man are everywhere swallowed up in the immensity of nature. The AEgean Sea is but Lake Huron still to the Indian.
Henry David ThoreauAn island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.
Henry David ThoreauThe walls that fence our fields, as well as modern Rome, and not less the Parthenon itself, are all built of ruins.
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 Thoreau