I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life.

建筑师必须是未来的守护者。

The knowledge of the circumstances of which we must make use never exists in concentrated or integrated form, but solely as the dispersed bits of incomplete and frequently contradictory knowledge which all the separate individuals possess.

Progress is not just about moving forward, but moving forward together.

"The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return."

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.