"Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The phenomena of the year take place every day in a pond on a small scale. Every morning, generally speaking, the shallow water isbeing warmed more rapidly than the deep, though it may not be made so warm after all, and every evening it is being cooled more rapidly until the morning. The day is an epitome of the year. The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring and fall, and the noon is the summer. The cracking and booming of the ice indicate a change of temperature.”

“I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society.”

“Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.”

“I’ve never been shy or secretive with the fact that if you walk into my life, you may be walking onto a record.”

“The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.”

“When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.”

“Wherever you are, and whatever you do, be in love.”

“To be is to do.”

“Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.”