This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?
Henry David ThoreauWhen I meet a government which says to me, "Your money or your life," why should I be in haste to give it my money?
Henry David ThoreauIt is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?
Henry David ThoreauLate in the afternoon we passed a man on the shore fishing with a long birch pole.... The characteristics and pursuits of various ages and races of men are always existing in epitome in every neighborhood. The pleasures of my earliest youth have become the inheritance of other men. This man is still a fisher, and belongs to an era in which I myself have lived.
Henry David Thoreau