Really, there is no infidelity, nowadays, so great as that which prays, and keeps the Sabbath, and rebuilds the churches. The sealer of the South Pacific preaches a truer doctrine.
Henry David ThoreauHow few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
Henry David ThoreauNature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
Henry David ThoreauWe need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
Henry David Thoreau