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
I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.Henry David Thoreau
In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.Henry David Thoreau
I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a constant strain.Henry David Thoreau
Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.Henry David Thoreau
You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.Henry David Thoreau
I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.Linus Torvalds
