"I would rather sit on a pumpkin..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“I love a broad margin to my life. Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise til noon, rapt in a revery.”

“I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened.”

“We are independent of the change we detect. The longer the lever, the less perceptible its motion. It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero then will know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely; we shall sooner overtake the dawn by remaining here than by hurrying over the hills of the west.”

“I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.”

“Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine”

“The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things.”

“There is no feeling in this world to be compared with self-reliance--do not sacrifice that to anything else.”

“It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong.”

“Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives.”