"I saw a delicate flower had grown..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet highbetween the horses' feet and the wheel-track.Which Dakin's and Maynard's wagons hadPassed over many a time.An inch more to the right or left had sealed its fate,Or an inch higher. Yet it lived and flourished,As much as if it had a thousand acresOf untrodden space around it, and neverKnew the danger it incurred.It did not borrow trouble, nor invite anEvil fate by apprehending it.
More by Henry David Thoreau
“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
“Open all your pores and bathe in all the tides of nature, in all her streams and oceans, at all seasons.”
“The man who thrusts his manners upon me does as if he were to insist on introducing me to his cabinet of curiosities, when I wished to see himself.”
More on Resilience
“The $50 note trick - ask who wants it even after stomping on it - moral is, no matter what we do to it it is still worth $50. We as human beings never lose our value either despite feeling down, flat or worthless at times.”
“I will keep a smile on my face and in my heart even when it hurts today.”
“For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know”
More on Nature
“When the sovereign spirit within us is true to nature, it stands poised and ready to adjust to every change in circumstances and to seize each new opportunity. It doesn't approach an object with prejudice or preconception, but handles each thing dispassionately before embracing it and, if necessary, finds advantage in what opposes it. It is like fire in this regard. Whereas a feeble flame might suffocate under a pile of dry sticks, a robust fire consumes everything it touches. The more objects of any kind heaped on it, the higher it rises, the hotter it burns.”
“Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination.”
“Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.”