❝ “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
❝ “Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.” Henry David Thoreau
❝ “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
❝ “I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship; three for society. When visitors came in larger and unexpected numbers there was but the third chair for them all, but they generally economized the room by standing up.” Henry David Thoreau
❝ “I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.” Oscar Wilde
