Wood

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life."

"I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a man nailed to two pieces of wood."

"Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still as the Mountain."

"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."

"If people in general could be got into the woods, even for once, to hear the trees speak for themselves, all difficulties in the way of forest preservation would vanish."