I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.
Henry David ThoreauSummer passes into autumn in some unimaginable point of time, like the turning of a leaf.
Henry David ThoreauWe are enabled to apprehend at all what is sublime and noble only by the perpetual instilling and drenching of the reality that surrounds us. We can never have enough of nature.
Henry David ThoreauBehold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full of activity. The one looks in the sun until his eyes are put out; the other follows him prone in his westward course.
Henry David Thoreau