The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.

For things to change, we must change.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw.

The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World