Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.
Henry David ThoreauWater is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
Henry David ThoreauSome have asked if the stock of men could not be improved,--if they could not be bred as cattle. Let Love be purified, and all therest will follow. A pure love is thus, indeed, the panacea for all the ills of the world.
Henry David ThoreauWe should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.
Henry David Thoreau