"It is pleasant to have been to..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“When I visit again some haunt of my youth, I am glad to find that nature wears so well. The landscape is indeed something real, and solid, and sincere, and I have not put my foot through it yet.”

“I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest. What force has a multitude? They can only force me who obey a higher law than I.... I do not hear of men being forced to live this way or that by masses of men. What sort of life were that to live?”

“On every hand we observe a truly wise practice, in education, in morals, and in the arts of life, the embodied wisdom of many an ancient philosopher.”

“Usually speaking, the worst-bred person in company is a young traveller just returned from abroad.”

“I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days.”

“Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.”

“We could not help contrasting the equanimity of Nature with the bustle and impatience of man. His words and actions presume alwaysa crisis near at hand, but she is forever silent and unpretending.”

“To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back.”

“We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.”