"We are armed with language adequate to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Fire is the most tolerable third party”

“Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.”

“Count your age with friends but not with years.”

“They arose in my mind as 'given' things, and as they came, separately, so too the links grew. An absorbing, though continually interrupted labour (especially, even apart from the necessities of life, since the mind would wing to the other pole and spread itself on the linguistics): yet always I had the sense of recording what was already 'there', somewhere: not of 'inventing'.”

“Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.”

“For me, being literate and articulate is a form of judo, of overcoming the [system] by its own method.”

“Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”

“What is man but a mass of thawing clay?”

“To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother's keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful .”