I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.
Henry David ThoreauTreat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.
Henry David ThoreauIt is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
Henry David ThoreauThe most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
Henry David Thoreau