The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
Henry David ThoreauEvery man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Henry David ThoreauInstead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.
Henry David Thoreau