The President eats dirt and excrement for his daily meals, likes it and tries to force it on The States.

O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell.

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

Other lands have their vitality in a few, a class, but we have it in the bulk of our people.