"Far from New England's blustering shore,New England's..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.”

“To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.”

“We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.”

“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.”

“Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.”

“The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.”

“The difference between a republic and an empire is the loyalty of one's army”

“If I'd lived in Roman times, I'd have lived in Rome. Where else? Today America is the Roman Empire and New York is Rome itself.”

“The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death.”