"I long for wildness, a nature which..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.”

“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?”

“There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.”

“There is in my nature, methinks, a singular yearning toward all wildness.”

“To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.”

“Life consists with wildness. The most alive is the wildest. Not yet subdued to man, its presence refreshes him.”

“Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone, And kiss her lips and take her hands; And walk among long dappled grass, And pluck till time and times are done The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun.”

“He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.”

“What is man born for but to be a Reformer, a Remaker of what man has made? A renouncer of lies; a restorer of truth and good? Imitating that great Nature which embossoms us all, and which sleeps no moment on an old past, but every hour repairs herself, yielding us every morning a new day, with every breath a new life?”