"Oh to reach the point of death..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Nature has left nothing to the mercy of man.”

“Of course it is of no use to direct our steps to the woods, if they do not carry us thither. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.... What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”

“Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred. 3. Keep three chairs in your house. One for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. 4. To preserve your relationship to nature, make your life more moral, more pure, more innocent.”

“Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things.”

“Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.”

“There is no security in following the call to adventure.”

“Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption.”

“I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead.”

“Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.”