As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get my feet down to the earth.
Henry David ThoreauAs naturally as the oak bears an acorn and the vine a gourd, man bears a poem, either spoken or done.
Henry David ThoreauOur houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
Henry David ThoreauA worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper.
Henry David Thoreau