Sally Ruhl

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The church is a sort of hospital for men's souls and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods

“Did all this make sense?”
― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund

“I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.”
― Beatrix Potter