"A stranger may easily detect what is..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.”

“We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.”

“In our daily intercourse with men, our nobler faculties are dormant and suffered to rust. None will pay us the compliment to expect nobleness from us. Though we have gold to give, they demand only copper.”

“Happiness is in the taste, and not in the things.”

“A fanatic is always the fellow that is on the opposite side.”

“A walk in the woods is only an exalted dream.”

“He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best.”

“When there's dust missing here or there, it's because someone has touched my things. I see immediately someone has been there. And it's because I live constantly with dust, in dust, that I prefer to wear gray suits, the only color on which it leaves no trace.”

“When I am alone I can become invisible. I can sit on the top of a dune as motionless as an uprise of weeds, until the foxes run by unconcerned. I can hear the almost unhearable sound of the roses singing.”