"My vicinity affords many good walks; and..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.”

“Inexpressibly beautiful appears the recognition by man of the least natural fact, and the allying his life to it.”

“There are other letters for the child to learn than those which Cadmus invented. The Spaniards have a good term to express this wild and dusky knolwedge, Grammatica parda, tawny grammar, a kind of mother-wit derived from that same leopard to which I have referred.”

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. The Europeans value themselves on having subdued the horse to the uses of man; but I doubt whether we have not lost more than we have gained, by the use of this animal.”

“I think it is the best of humanity that goes out to walk. In happy hours, I think all affairs may be wisely postponed for walking.”

“In our most trivial walks, we are constantly, though unconsciously, steering like pilots by certain well-known beacons and headlands, and if we go beyond our usual course we still carry in our minds the bearing of some neighboring cape; and not till we are completely lost, or turned round,--for a man needs only to be turned round once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost,--do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of nature.”

“The unnatural, that too is natural.”

“In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation is the aim... The details, the prose of nature, he should omit, and give us only the spirit and splendour.”