Henry David Thoreau

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?