Bald

"If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."

... Henry David Thoreau

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The Eyes Have It

"What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire."

"The eye is the jewel of the body."

... Henry David Thoreau

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BODY of Evidence

"The body can feed the body only."

 

... Henry David Thoreau

Brandon 

Spencer 

"Man may have his opinion as to the relative importance of feeding his body and nourishing his soul, but he is allowed by Nature to have no opinion whatever as to the need for feeding the body before the soul can think of anything but the body's hunger." 

... George Bernard Shaw

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Friendship

“Friendships are fragile things, and require as much handling as any other fragile and precious thing.”

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?”

 ... Henry David Thoreau

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There's Nothing Scary About "Frank" ...

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies. 

...Henry David Thoreau

It is the vice of our public speaking that it has not abandonment. Somewhere, not only every orator but every man should let out all the length of all the reins; should find or make a frank and hearty expression of what force and meaning is in him.

 

...Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photography: SOURCE

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The Great Outdoors

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface. 

... Henry David Thoreau

Furry

The city mouse eats bread and cheese; The garden mouse eats what he can; We will not grudge him seeds and stocks, Poor little timid furry man.

... Christina Georgina Rossetti (British Poet)

For beauty, give me trees with the fur on. 

... Henry David Thoreau