Making a logging-road in the Maine woods is called "swamping" it, and they who do the work are called "swampers." I now perceivedthe fitness of the term. This was the most perfectly swamped of all the roads I ever saw. Nature must have coรถperated with art here.
Henry David ThoreauThe mass of men serve the state thus, not as men mainly, but as machines, with their bodies.
Henry David ThoreauThe savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
Henry David ThoreauIn the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.
Henry David Thoreau