If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and his son and friends, and never see them again, if you paid your debts, and made a will, if you've arranged your business, and if you're a free man, then you're ready to begin a journey.
live much outside in the sun and wind, can no doubt produce a certain roughness of character, can grow a thicker layer of skin not only on the face and hands, but also on some of the most exquisite quality of the our nature.
I, in my wanderings, to return to myself. From
some hills loom dwellings of man and his civilization. [...] I am glad to see how little space occupy in the landscape.
Nature has, I believe, a subtle magnetism that can guide us in the right direction, if we abandon ourselves to it.
My desire for knowledge is intermittent, but the desire to regenerate the mind in atmospheres unknown, exploring areas not yet covered by my feet, is perennial and constant.
While almost all men feel compelled to society, few are attracted strongly by Nature.
Walking Henry David Thoreau
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