"Perchance the time will come when we..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.”

“Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.”

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.”

“The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.”

“The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!”

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”

“You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.”

“We all need lots of powerful long range goals to help us past the short-term obstacles”

“The desire to order other people around and make them conform to one own's vision takes many forms.”