“One should go to the woods for safety, if for nothing else.”

“Going to the woods is going home.”

“All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.”

“...full of God's thoughts, a place of peace and safety amid the most exalted grandeur and enthusiastic action, a new song, a place of beginnings abounding in first lessons of life, mountain building, eternal, invincible, unbreakable order; with sermons in stone, storms, trees, flowers, and animals brimful with humanity.”

“Nothing truly wild is unclean.”

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”

“Going to the mountains is going home.”