"Gardening is civil and social, but it..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The voice of nature is always encouraging.”

“Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.”

“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”

“I speak for the trees!”

“Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.”

“When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face to face with that hatchery of stars. Only half awake, still unaware that those depths were sky, having no roof between those depths and me, no branches to screen them, no root to cling to, I was seized with vertigo and felt myself as if flung forth and plunging downward like a diver.”

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

“The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person and freedom, decrepit preachers of carrion and rot! What do they have: gray heads, the golden mean, the most abject and philistine giftlessness, envious equality, equality without personal dignity, equality as understood by a lackey or a Frenchman of the year ninety-three...And scoundrells, above all, scoundrels, scoundrels everywhere!”

“O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space – were it not that I have bad dreams.”