A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.
Henry David ThoreauTo be awake is to be completely alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake.
Henry David ThoreauWe can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
Henry David Thoreau