There is a season for everything. You must live in the present, launch yourself in every wave, find your eternity in each moment.
Fools stand on their island of opportunities & look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this
- Henry David Thoreau
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. They honestly think there is no choice left.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau
Monsters exist. But are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.
I have found a way to live without what is commonly called employment or industry, attractive or otherwise.
Indeed my steadiest employment, if such it can be called, is to keep myself at the top of my condition and ready for whatever may turn up in heaven or on Earth.
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations - Henry David Thoreau
Primeval, untamed, and forever untamable Nature.
Here was no man's garden, but the unhandselled globe.
It was the fresh & natural surface of the planet Earth, as it was made forever & ever.
- Henry David Thoreau