Henry David Thoreau Landscape Quotations

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.