Quote
1789·Selborne, England
A district produces the greatest variety which is the most examined.
A good ornithologist should be able to distinguish birds by their air as well as by their colours and shape.
These circumstances, trivial as they may seem, have their importance; since without them we could never have come to any certainty.
Henry David Thoreau·1854Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs, in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sang around or flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time.
Matsuo Bashō·1690The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
Henry David Thoreau·1862In my walks I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods, if I am thinking of something out of the woods?
