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• In wildness is the preservation of the world. -- Henry David Thoreau, Walking(1862)
• In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life
  uch are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds....
• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to leave alone.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest. Henry David Thoreau
• All good things are wild, and free. -- Henry David Thoreau
• Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises?
  If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer....
• Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
  -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)...
• The man for whom law exists - the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
  -- Henry David Thoreau...
• If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
  Let him step to the music he hears however measured and far away. Henry David Thoreau...