It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves.
Henry David ThoreauIt is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
Henry David ThoreauIt is only necessary that man should start a fence that Nature should carry it on and complete it. The farmer cannot plow quite up to the rails or wall which he himself has placed, and hence it often becomes a hedgerow and sometimes a coppice.
Henry David ThoreauThe knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
Henry David Thoreau