When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
Henry David ThoreauIn solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David ThoreauI lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent.
Henry David ThoreauOnly the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
Henry David ThoreauI think that every town should have a park, or rather a primitive forest, of five hundred or a thousand acres, either in one body or several, where a stick would never be cut for fuel, not for the navy, not to make wagons, but stand and decay for higher uses - a common possession for instruction and recreation.
Henry David Thoreau