"Simplicity is the law of Nature for..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.”

“While almost all men feel an attraction drawing them to society, few are attracted strongly to Nature. In their reaction to Naturemen appear to me for the most part, notwithstanding their arts, lower than the animals. It is not often a beautiful relation, as in the case of the animals. How little appreciation of the beauty of the landscape there is among us! We have to be told that the Greeks called the world Kosmos, Beauty, or Order, but we do not see clearly why they did so, and we esteem it at best only a curious philological fact.”

“While my friend was my friend, he flattered me, and I never heard the truth from him. When he became my enemy, he shot it to me on a poisoned arrow.”

“The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.”

“Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.”

“One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.”

“What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.”

“And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth.”

“If we walk in the woods, we must feed mosquitoes.”