We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

It is one of the signs of the times. We confess that we have risen from reading this book with enlarged ideas, and grander conceptions of our duties in this world. It did expand us a little.

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

I have no designs on society, or nature, or God. I am simply what I am, or I begin to be that. I live in the present. I only remember the past, and anticipate the future. I love to live.