~ When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and the most interminable, and to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter the swamp as a sacred place--a sanctum sanctorum; there is the strength, the marrow of Nature. ~  ~ If we were required to know the position of the fruit dots or the character of the indusium’s, nothing could be easier to ascertain, but if it is required that you be affected by ferns, that they amount to anything, signify anything to you, that they be another sacred scripture and revelation to you, help to redeem your life, this end is not so easily accomplished. ~ ~ We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be indefinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable. We can never have enough of nature." ~ ~ What is the good of having a nice house without a decent planet to put it on? ~ ~ This world is but canvas to our imaginations ~ ~ There can be no very black misery to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still. ~ ~ People lead lives of quiet desperation. ~ ~ It takes two to speak the truth one to speak, and another to hear. ~ ~ Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
~ ~ True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
~ ~ 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 which he hears, however measured or far away.
~ ~ I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.
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