To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.
Henry David ThoreauMany men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David ThoreauI should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau