Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad. ” ~ Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American author, poet, philosopher, polymath, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and transcendentalistSource: Civil Disobedience (1849)