We need the tonic of wildness…At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature.

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Now-a-days, men wear a fool's cap, and call it a liberty cap.

But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society.

Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads, - and then we can hardly see anything else.

They who are at work abroad are not cold, but rather it is they who sit shivering in houses.

The seasons and all their changes are in me.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal—that is your success.

An unclean person is universally a slothful one.

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

I hear beyond the range of sound, I see beyond the range of sight, New earths, and skies and seas around.