What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.
Henry David ThoreauYou think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.
Henry David ThoreauThe traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.
Henry David Thoreau