The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!
Henry David ThoreauThere is an orientalism in the most restless pioneer, and the farthest west is but the farthest east.
Henry David ThoreauThe richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
Henry David ThoreauAs for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that. Let not your right hand know what your left hand does in that line of business. It will prove a failure.... It is a greater strain than any soul can long endure. When you get God to pulling one way, and the devil the other, each having his feet well braced,--to say nothing of the conscience sawing transversely,--almost any timber will give way.
Henry David Thoreau