"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, poet (1803 - 1882)

"Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind."

~ R. W. Emerson

Emerson's essay, "Nature," identified four aspects of man's use of nature:  Commodity, Beauty, Language and Discipline ~ an influence on Henry Thoreau's writings, including Walden.