"Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life...." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!”

“Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.”

“If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.”

“There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.”

“Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once.”

“To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.”

“The source of now is here.”

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

“It is the same among the men and women, as among the silent trees; always a referred existence, an absence, never a presence and satisfaction. Is it, that beauty can never be grasped? In persons and in landscape is equally inaccessible?”