"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile, as a fungus or a lichen."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"This world is but a canvas to our imaginations."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"Heaven is under our feet, as well as over our heads."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

"Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain."

Henry David Thoreau

July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862