"There is one thought for the field,..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Hold fast to your most indefinite, waking dream.”

“I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.”

“I do not wish to be any more busy with my hands than is necessary.”

“There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think.”

“The ego says, I shouldn't have to suffer, and that thought makes you suffer so much more.”

“Nothing can be colder than his head, when the lightnings of his imagination are playing in the sky.”

“The soil is the gift of God to the living.”

“We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.”

“Turbulent childhood, adolescent daydreams in the drone of the bus's motor, mornings, unspoiled girls, beaches, young muscles always at the peak of their effort, evening's slight anxiety in a sixteen-year-old-heart, lust for life, fame, and ever the same sky through the years, unfailing in strength and light, itself insatiable, consuming one by one over a period of months the victims stretched out in the form of crosses on the beach at the deathlike hour of noon.”