in Thoreau’s Journal:

It is glorious to consider how independent man is of all enervating luxuries–& the poorer he is in respect to them the richer he is–

Summer is gone with all its infinite wealth–& still nature is genial to man—though he no longer bathes in the stream or reclines under the bank–or plucks berries on the hills–still he beholds the same inaccessible beauty around him….