There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
Henry David ThoreauWe perceive that the schemers return again and again to common sense and labor. Such is the evidence of history.
Henry David ThoreauOur village life would stagnate if it were not for the unexplored forests and meadows which surround it.
Henry David ThoreauThere should always be some flowering and maturing of the fruits of nature in the cooking process.
Henry David Thoreau