In civilization, as in a southern latitude, man degenerates at length, and yields to the incursion of more northern tribes.
Henry David ThoreauThe slight reproach to which the virtue of patriotism is commonly liable, the noble are most likely to incur.
Henry David ThoreauCan we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?
Henry David ThoreauI frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
Henry David Thoreau