Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let them.
Henry David ThoreauThe boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.
Henry David ThoreauHistory has neither the venerableness of antiquity, nor the freshness of the modern. It does as if it would go to the beginning ofthings, which natural history might with reason assume to do; but consider the Universal History, and then tell us,--when did burdock and plantain sprout first?
Henry David Thoreau