A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature..
I meet his servant come to draw water for his master, and our buckets as it were grate together in the same well. The pure Walden water is mingled wit..
Wildness is the preservation of the world. I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spi..
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however..
The morning wind forever blows, the poem of creation is uninterrupted; but few are the ears that hear it. Olympus is but the outside of the earth ever..