The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another. It is as well for cheerfulness as for warmth and dryness.
Henry David ThoreauIt is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.
Henry David ThoreauEven Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
Henry David ThoreauI confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.
Henry David Thoreau