How much more admirable the Bhagvat-Geeta than all the ruins of the East! - Henry David Thoreau

What's the need of visiting far-off mountains and bogs, if a half-hour’s walk will carry me into such wildness and novelty.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most perfectly is what we have most thoroughly learned by the longest practice, and at length it falls from us without our notice, as a leaf from a tree.

Why will you waste so many regards on me, and not know what to think of my silence? Infer from it what you might from the silence of a dense pine wood. It is its natural condition, except when the winds blow, and the jays scream, and the chickadee winds up his clock. My silence is just as inhuman as that, and no more.