In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
Henry David ThoreauEvery man will be a poet if he can; otherwise a philosopher or man of science. This proves the superiority of the poet.
Henry David ThoreauFollow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.
Henry David ThoreauWe have need to be earth-born as well as heaven-born, gegeneis, as was said of the Titans of old, or in a better sense than they.
Henry David ThoreauI do believe that the outward and the inward life correspond; that if any should succeed to live a higher life, others would not know of it; that difference and distance are one. To set about living a true life is to go on a journey to a distant country, gradually to find ourselves surrounded by new scenes and men; and as long as the old are around me, I know that I am not in any true sense living a new or a better life.
Henry David Thoreau