When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Henry David ThoreauAs in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
Henry David ThoreauThere are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.
Henry David ThoreauThe walking of which I speak has nothing in it akin to taking exercise, as it is called, as the sick take medicine at stated hours ... but is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day.
Henry David Thoreau