Most, it would seem to me, do not care for nature and would sell their share.

The rule is to carry as little as possible.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined...

No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

And if the civilized man's pursuits are no worthier than the savage's, if he is employed the greater part of his life in obtaininggross necessaries and comforts merely, why should he have a better dwelling than the former?

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.