In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by their weight again bent down and broke their tender limbs.

Let go of the past and live the future . . . Live the life you imagined.

I hardly know an intellectual man, even, who is so broad and truly liberal that you can think aloud in his society.

I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.

He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. Butwe would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.

I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.