I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.
Henry David ThoreauThus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.
Henry David ThoreauThe most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.
Henry David ThoreauI got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say that characters were engraven on the bathing tub of King Tching-thang to this effect: "Renew thyself completely each day; do it again, and again, and forever again."
Henry David Thoreau