"I saw a muskrat come out of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“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.”

“All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.”

“If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.”

“Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.”

“Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature.”

“And, in fine, the ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.”

“Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.”

“I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.”

“To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.”