"Give me a Wildness whose glance no..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“But the impressions which the morning makes vanish with its dews, and not even the most "persevering mortal" can preserve the memory of its freshness to midday.”

“Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.”

“f the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go; perchance it will wear smooth - certainly the machine will wear out... but if it is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the machine. What I have to do is to see, at any rate, that I do not lend myself to the wrong which I condemn.”

“It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods.”

“Mine was, as it were, the connecting link between wild and cultivated fields; as some states are civilized, and others half-civilized, and others savage or barbarous, so my field was, though not in a bad sense, a half-cultivated field. They were beans cheerfully returning to their wild and primitive state that I cultivated, and my hoe played the Ranz des Vaches for them.”

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

“A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.”

“Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)”

“The hare grows old as she plays in the sunAnd gazes around her with eyes of brightness;Before the swift things that she dreamed of were doneShe limps along in an aged whiteness.”