"We falsely attribute to people a determined character; putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them, we presume to know them. Pity the person who has a character to support. It is worse than a large family! . . . But in fact character is NEVER EXPLORED, nor does it get developed in time, but eternity is its development . . . I approach a great [human] nature with infinite expectation and uncertainty, not knowing what I may meet. It lies as broad and unexplored before me as a scraggy hillside or pasture. I may hear a fox bark, or a partridge drum, or some bird new to these localities may fly up."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: A hill side of Wild Plum (red) and Three-leaved Sumac (orange) in Lory State Park, CO; October 15, 2012
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