I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.
Henry David ThoreauHow little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws.
Henry David ThoreauNature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
Henry David ThoreauIn my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
Henry David ThoreauNature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
Henry David Thoreau