Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.
Henry David ThoreauWhen we want culture more than potatoes, and illumination more than sugar-plums, then the great resources of a world are taxed anddrawn out, and the result, or staple production, is, not slaves, nor operatives, but men,--those rare fruits called heroes, saints, poets, philosophers, and redeemers.
Henry David ThoreauFishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.
Henry David ThoreauMany are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
Henry David Thoreau