Status Updates From Walden, or Life in the Woods

"I have frequently seen a poet withdraw, having enjoyed the most valuable part of a farm, while the crusty farmer supposed that he had got a few wild apples only, Why, the owner does not know it for many years when a poet has put his farm in rhyme, the most admirable kine of invisible fence. has fairly impounded it, milked it, skimmed it, and got all the cream, and left the farmer only skimmed milk."

Good book for being out to sea

"One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels."