“We can never have enough of nature…. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.” Henry David Thoreau
“Those who are faithful know only the pleasures of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.” Oscar Wilde
“There is always something ridiculous about the passions of people whom one has ceased to love.” Oscar Wilde
“Behold! human beings living in an underground den… Like ourselves… They see only their own shadows, or the shadows of one another, which the fire throws on the opposite wall of the cave.” Plato
“By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property…the landscape is deformed.” Henry David Thoreau