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The Library is a wilderness of books.
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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I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on earth in an ox cart, with a free circulation, than go to heaven in the fancy car of an excursion train and breathe a malaria all the way.
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I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
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A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.
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And so the seasons went rolling on into summer, as one rambles into higher and higher grass.
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What is sour in the house a bracing walk in the woods makes sweet.
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Of a life of luxury the fruit is luxury, whether in agriculture, or commerce, or literature, or art.
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I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
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I am engaged to Concord and my own private pursuits by 10,000 ties, and it would be suicide to rend them.
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All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
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This whole earth in which we inhabit is but a point is space.
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