The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.
Henry David ThoreauAs far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to them that we owe this gift. It is not in vain that the squirrels live in or about every forest tree, or hollow log, and every wall and heap of stones.
Henry David ThoreauThe sea, vast and wild as it is, bears thus the waste and wrecks of human art to its remotest shore. There is no telling what it may not vomit up.
Henry David ThoreauI could not undertake to form a nucleus of an institution for the development of infant minds, where none already existed. It would be too cruel.
Henry David Thoreau