"Nature has taken more care than the..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“For a man to act himself, he must be perfectly free; otherwise he is in danger of losing all sense of responsibility or of self- respect.”

“In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself.”

“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear theatmosphere of smoke.”

“There is nothing that Nature seems to have inclined us to as much as society.”

“You must hear the birds song without attempting to render it into nouns and verbs.”

“The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.”

“If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

“Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore.”

“There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.”