Quote from “Letters To Various Persons (1865)”

I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence.

Henry David Thoreau

Quote from “A Week On The Concord And Merrimack Rivers (1849)”

My life has been the poem
I would have writ,
But I could not both live
and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau