In literature it is only the wild that attracts us.

As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.

The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.

All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.

What is the value of any political freedom, but as a means to moral freedom?