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He who cuts down woods beyond a certain limit exterminates birds.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.
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We are superior to the joy we experience.
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I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.
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It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village to make any progress between his door and his gate.
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I knew that the wall was the main thing in Quebec, and had cost a great deal of money.... In fact, these are the only remarkable walls we have in North America, though we have a good deal of Virginia fence, it is true.
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We loiter in winter while it is already spring.
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