"When I would recreate myself I seek the darkest wood the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a...
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
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"We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.
"To be awake is to be alive.
"I have spent many an hour, when I was younger, floating over its surface as the zephyr willed, having paddled my boat to the middle, and lying on my b...
"I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech tree or a yellow birch or an old acquaintance a...
"The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance o...
"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up.
"The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient wh...
"...is not Nature, rightly read, that of which she is commonly taken to be the symbol merely?
"You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer’s wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men...
"Thus the great civilizer sends out its emissaries, sooner or later, to every sandy cape and light-house of the New World which the census-taker visits...
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
"As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed ...
"If a man walk in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer; but if he spends his whole day as a specu...