It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
Henry David ThoreauFrom my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.
Henry David ThoreauSurely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and damp ? are they not as rich experience as warmth and dryness?
Henry David ThoreauThe ears were made, not for such trivial uses as men are wont to suppose, but to hear celestial sounds.
Henry David Thoreau