The correlation between perspective and principles!

This particular quote by Thoreau exemplifies the relationship between our perspective and our principles - "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."-Henry David Thoreau