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Planning to play: that's what saving for retirement is today - and it is antithetical to the nature of play, fully within the definition of work, and blissfully ignorant of the reality of death.

John Thorn

Death

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature

Nothing

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature

Sense

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.

It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

Henry David Thoreau

Nature

Bees

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

Henry David Thoreau

Life

Nature

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

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.

But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

I know no subject more elevating, more amazing, more ready to the poetical enthusiasm, the philosophical reflection, and the moral sentiment than the works of nature. Where can we meet such variety, such beauty, such magnificence?