Potent Quotable (June 2026)
“We cannot be spiritually alive without wildness around us; our thoughts cannot take wing if we drive away the birds.” -Henry David Thoreau
“Nature, in the common sense, refers to essences unchanged by man, space, the air, the river, the leaf.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“To the attentive eye, each moment of the year has its own beauty, and in the same field, it beholds, every hour, a picture which was never seen before, and which shall never be seen again.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Who looks upon a river in a meditative hour, and is not reminded of the flux of all things? Throw a stone into the stream, and the circles that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Words are finite organs of the finite mind.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Eastward I go only by force, but westward I go free.” Henry David Thoreau
“The west of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the world.” -Henry David Thoreau
Be good to each other,
Nathan
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