What do the botanists know? Our lives should go between the lichen and the bark. The eye may see for the hand, but not for the mind. We are still being born, and have as yet but a dim vision of sea and land, sun, moon, and stars, and shall not see clearly till after nine days at least.
Henry David ThoreauI make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
Henry David ThoreauThe movements of the eyes express the perpetual and unconscious courtesy of the parties.
Henry David ThoreauHow novel and original must be each new mans view of the universe - for though the world is so old - and so many books have been written - each object appears wholly undescribed to our experience - each field of thought wholly unexplored - the whole world is an America - a New World.
Henry David Thoreau