For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border
life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and
transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state
into whose I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.
life, on the confines of a world into which I make occasional and
transient forays only, and my patriotism and allegiance to the state
into whose I seem to retreat are those of a moss-trooper.
Thoreau - Excursions and Poems