“Concord is a classic land. The names of Emerson and Thoreau and Channing and Hawthorne are associated with the fields and forests and lakes and rivers of this township.”
“To me, a forest is just a bunch of trees, but lakes and rivers are alive. Water is to the land what blood is to the land.”
“I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.”
“Was it pretty? Your country. . .your land?" "It was beautiful," the gunslinger said. "There were fields and forests and rivers and mists in the morning. But that's only pretty. My mother used to say that the only real beauty is order and love and light.”
“I wouldn't know where to start.""He who chooses the beginning of the road chooses the place it leads to." "Thoreau?""Harry Emerson Fosdick...”
“I'll admit that I was surprised to see two decades of film journalism canonized in the same church as Lincoln, Thoreau, Emerson, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson; that's a fairly loose canon.”