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It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or read more
It's hard for the modern generation to understand Thoreau, who lived beside a pond but didn't own water skis or a snorkel.
 See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, 
one river, and see all.  
 See one promontory (said Socrates of old) one mountain, one sea, 
one river, and see all. 
Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
 Nature abhors annihilation.
 [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.]  
 Nature abhors annihilation.
 [Lat., Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.] 
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
The Sun, Moon and Stars are there to guide us.
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of read more
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago, had they happened to be within reach of predatory human hands.
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship read more
I look upon all creatures equally; none are less dear to me and none more dear. But those who worship me with love live in me, and I come to life in them.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of read more
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that read more
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.