Cool quotes and stuff. This method of organization is tentative. To be continuously updated, though maybe in batches so as to not clog up the Updates section.
“How can [man] remember well his ignorance—which his growth requires—who has so often to use his knowledge?” - 8
“All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.” - 21
“Every child begins the world again, to some extent…” - 24
“If it is asserted that civilization is a real advance in the condition of man—and I think that it is, though only the wise improve their advantages—it must be shown that it has produced better dwellings without making them more costly; and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.” - 26
“The very simplicity and nakedness of man’s life in the primitive ages imply this advantage, at least, that they left him still but a sojourner in nature. When he was refreshed with food and sleep, he contemplated his journey again. He dwelt, as it were, in a tent in this world, and was either threading the valleys, or crossing the plains, or climbing the mountain-tops. But lo! men have become the tools of their tools. The Man who independently plucked the fruits when he was hungry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a tree for shelter, a housekeeper. We now no longer camp for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven.” - 31
“Before we can adorn our houses with beautiful objects the walls must be stripped, and our lives must be stripped, and beautiful housekeeping and beautiful living be laid for a foundation: now, a taste for the beautiful is most cultivated out of doors, where there is no house and no housekeeper.” - 32