"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The mission of men there seems to be, like so many busy demons, to drive the forest all out of the country, from every solitary beaver swamp and mountain-side, as soon as possible.”

“We make needless ado about capital punishment,--taking lives, when there is no life to take.”

“We waded so gently and reverently, or we pulled together so smoothly, that the fishes of thought were not scared from the stream, nor feared any angler on the bank, but came and went grandly, like the clouds which came and went on the western sky, and the mother-o'-pearl flocks which sometimes form and dissolve there.”

“The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection of things, there can be enjoyment, contemplation, but no thought.”

“Act without doing; work without effort. Think of the small as large and the few as many. Confront the difficult while it is still easy; accomplish the great task by a series of small acts. The Master never reaches for the great; thus she achieves greatness. When she runs into a difficulty, she stops and gives herself to it. She doesn't cling to her own comfort; thus problems are no problem for her.”

“Mask your brightness. Be at one with the dust of the earth. This is primal union.”

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”