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What we call wildness is a civilization other than our own.
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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Generally speaking, the political news, whether domestic or foreign, might be written today for the next ten years with sufficientaccuracy. Most revolutions in society have not power to interest, still less alarm us but tell me that our rivers are drying up, or the genus pine dying out in the country, and I might attend.
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Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.
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Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.
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As in many countries precious metals belong to the crown, so here more precious natural objects of rare beauty should belong to the public.
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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them.
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Unlike the Concord, the Merrimack is not a dead but a living stream, though it has less life within its waters and on its banks. It has a swift current, and, in this part of its course, a clayey bottom, almost no weeds, and comparatively few fishes.
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I fear that I have not got much to say about Canada, not having seen much what I got by going to Canada was a cold.
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The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.
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I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
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