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·1686An old silent pond. A frog jumps into the pond — splash! Silence again.
Henry David Thoreau·1850My life is like a stroll upon the beach, As near the ocean's edge as I can go.
