For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.
Henry David ThoreauIt is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
Henry David ThoreauOur thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
Henry David Thoreau