A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.
Henry David ThoreauA man of fine perceptions is more truly feminine than a merely sentimental woman.
Henry David ThoreauWhatever has not come under the sway of man is wild. In this sense original and independent men are wild - not tamed and broken by society.
Henry David ThoreauI long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.
Henry David Thoreau