“The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.” (Henry David Thoreau)

- A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849)
This famous American author spent two years living in the wilderness at Walden Pond, where he penned some of his most-remembered works. This quote was written in memory of a trip he took with his brother John, who died of tetanus in 1842. The quote continues, “It is an intelligence above language. One imagines endless conversations with his Friend, in which the tongue shall be loosed, and thoughts be spoken without hesitance or end…”