Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity.

 

"Staying in the house breeds a sort of insanity always.  Every house is in this sense a hospital.  A night and a forenoon is as much confinement to those wards as I can stand.  I am aware that I recover some sanity which I had lost almost the instant that I come abroad."

Henry David Thoreau  

Photo: Ice patterns on The Loch; Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; April 1, 2014