Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. - Henry David Thoreau

It matters not where or how far you travel, —the farther commonly the worse, —but how much alive you are.

I would fain make two reports in my Journal, first the incidents and observations of to-day; and by to-morrow I review the same and record what was omitted before, which will often be the most significant and poetic part. I do not know at first what it is that charms me. The men and things of to-day are wont to lie fairer and truer in to-morrow's memory.

We can understand the phenomenon of death in the animal better if we first consider it in the order next below us, the vegetable.