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"Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!"


"When I would recreate myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest, most interminable and, to the citizen, most dismal swamp. I enter a swamp as a sacred place, a sanctum sanctorum."


"There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature. The wildwood covers the virgin mould, and the same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck."

"A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. "

"A township where one primitive forest waves above while another primitive forest rots below--such a town is fitted to raise not only corn and potatoes, but poets and philosophers for the coming ages. In such a soil grew Homer and Confucius and the rest, and out of such wilderness comes the Reformer eating locusts and wild honey."

~Henry David Thoreau