Quotes on small sanctuaries, slowness, and nature-connected living by poets and naturalists

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.
Henry David Thoreau^[1][3][4]

In Wildness is the preservation of the World.
Henry David Thoreau^[3][6]

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally.
John Muir^[1]

There are no unsacred places; there are only sacred places and desecrated places.
Wendell Berry^[1]

Nature never makes haste; her systems revolve at an even pace.
Henry David Thoreau^[3][4]