HENRY DAVID THOREAU

"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time."

"To be awake is to be alive. I have never yet met a man who was quite awake."

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see.”"

"Be resolutely and faithfully what you are; be humbly what you aspire to be."

"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."

"Wildness is the preservation of the World."

"There is no remedy for love but to love more."

"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."

"Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe."

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion."

"The universe is wider than our views of it."

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."

"I have a room all to myself; it is nature."

"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth."

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root."

"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."

"Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land."

"I make myself rich by making my wants few."