Drive a nail home and clinch it so faithfully that you can wake up in the night and think of your work with satisfaction - a work at which you would not be ashamed to invoke the muse.
Henry David ThoreauFront yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
Henry David ThoreauYou may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
Henry David Thoreau