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Our life is frittered away by detail

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

In society you will not find health, but in nature.

Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.

A wise man is never so busy as in the solitary contemplation of God and the works of Nature.

Let us tell ambition that it is she herself who gives us a taste of solitude; for what does she so much avoid as society?

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.

When he undertakes to play a part on the stage, and to persuade the world to think more about him than they do about themselves, he is got into a track where he will find nothing but briars and thorns, vexation and disappointment.