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To the sick the doctors wisely recoe of air and scenery Thank Heaven, here is not all the world The buckeye does not grow in New England, and the oose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and pluht in a southern bayou Even the bison, to so the pastures of the Colorado only till a greener and sweeter grass awaits him by the Yellowstone Yet we think that if rail fences are pulled down, and stone walls piled up on our farms, bounds are henceforth set to our lives and our fates decided If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this suo to the land of infernal fire nevertheless The universe is wider than our views of it

Yet we should oftener look over the tafferel of our craft, like curious passengers, and notoakulobe is but the horeat-circle sailing, and the doctors prescribe for diseases of the skin iraffe; but surely that is not the gairaffes if he could? Snipes and woodcocks also ame to shoot one&039;s self--

"Direct your eye right inward, and you&039;ll find

A thousand regions in your mind

Yet undiscovered Travel theraphy"

What does Africa -- what does the West stand for? Is not our own interior white on the chart? black though it may prove, like the coast, when discovered Is it the source of the Nile, or the Niger, or the Mississippi, or a Northwest Passage around this continent, that ould find? Are these the problems which most concern mankind? Is Franklin the only man who is lost, that his wife should be so earnest to find him? Does Mr Grinnell knohere he hio Park, the Lewis and Clark and Frobisher, of your own streaher latitudes -- with shiploads of preserved meats to support you, if they be necessary; and pile the en Were preserved meats invented to preserve meat merely? Nay, be a Colu new channels, not of trade, but of thought Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less They love the soil which raves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which ot in their heads What was theExpedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by hih cold and storovernment ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one&039;s being alone

"Erret, et extremos alter scrutetur Iberos

Plus habet hic vitae, plus habet ille viae"

Let them wander and scrutinize the outlandish Australians

I have more of God, they more of the road

It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar Yet do this even till you can do better, and you et at the inside at last England and France, Spain and Portugal, Gold Coast and Slave Coast, all front on this private sea; but no bark froh it is without doubt the direct way to India If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all cliainst a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist Start now on that farthest western hich does not pause at the Mississippi or the Pacific, nor conduct toward a wornout China or Japan, but leads on direct, a tangent to this sphere, suht, sun down, moon down, and at last earth down too

It is said that Mirabeau took to highway robbery "to ascertain what degree of resolution was necessary in order to place one&039;s self in formal opposition to the most sacred laws of society" He declared that "a soldier who fights in the ranks does not require half so ion have never stood in the way of a well-considered and a firoes; and yet it was idle, if not desperate A saner h "in formal opposition" to what are deeh obedience to yet oing out of his way It is not for a man to put himself in such an attitude to society, but to h obedience to the laws of his being, which will never be one of opposition to a just government, if he should chance to meet with such

I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to live, and could not spare any more time for that one It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves I had not lived there a week before h it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open The surface of the earth is soft and impressible by the feet of men; and so with the paths which the hways of the world, how deep the ruts of tradition and conforo before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the o belo

I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreained, he will meet with a success unexpected in cos behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and in to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favor in a her order of beings In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be Now put the foundations under them