My profession is to be always on the alert to find God in nature, to know his lurking-places, to attend all the oratorios, the operas in nature.
Henry David ThoreauNature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
Henry David ThoreauMost people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.
Henry David ThoreauIt is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.
Henry David Thoreau