---- Henry David Thoreau
�I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and to see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the enlightened mind the whole world sparkles and burns.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; there is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�The civilized man has built a coach, but he has lost the use of his feet.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�I learned this, at least, by my experiment, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�Most of the luxuries and many of the so called comforts of life, are not only indispensable, but a positive hindrance to the elevation of mankind.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�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
�A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�If the day and night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance such that flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal � that is your success.�
---- Henry David Thoreau
�In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, - no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair. Standing on the bare ground, - my head bathed by the blithe air and uplifted into infinite space, - all mean egotism vanishes.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�In the woods, too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period so ever of life is always a child. In the woods is perpetual youth.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�The aspect of Nature is devout. Like the figure of Jesus, she stands with bended head, and hands folded upon the breast. The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship. Of the ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most will say least.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
�To be great is to be misunderstood.�
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
