“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
Henry David Thoreau – Walden (1854)
“I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“A day of silence can be a pilgrimage in itself.”
-Hafiz
“Silence is a communing of a conscious soul with itself.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit…. what business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
-Henry David Thoreau
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Love they said burns you and builds you!
But with you, there is no ash,
Just Light.
-Kamand Kojouni
“Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world.”
-John Milton
“When there’s snow on the ground
I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.”
-Takayuki Ikkaku
“Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or
usher in storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
-Rabindranath Tagore
“You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“I make myself rich by making my wants few.”
-Henry David Thoreau
“Wilderness helps us preserve our capacity for wonder – the power to feel, if not to see, the miracles of life, of beauty, and of harmony around us.”
-William O. Douglas
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”
-William Shakespeare
“All good things are wild and free.”– Henry David Thoreau
“The cost of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it”~ Henry David Thoreau
