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Such a man has some right to fish, and I love to see nature carried out in him.
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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If rightly made, a boat would be a sort of amphibious animal, a creature of two elements, related by one half its structure to some swift and shapely fish, and by the other to some strong-winged and graceful bird.
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We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.
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All the moral laws are readily translated into natural philosophy, for often we have only to restore the primitive meaning of thewords by which they are expressed, or to attend to their literal instead of their metaphorical sense. They are already supernatural philosophy.
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Long enough I had heard of irrelevant things now at length I was glad to make acquaintance with the light that dwells in rotten wood. Where is all your knowledge gone to? It evaporates completely, for it has no depth.
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To the sick the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery.
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The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.
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It is necessary not to be Christian to appreciate the beauty and significance of the life of Christ.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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All the past is here, present to be tried let it approve itself if it can.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
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When I would re-create myself, I seek the darkest wood, the thickest and most interminable and to the citizen, most dismal, swamp. I enter as a sacred place, a Sanctum sanctorum. There is the strength, the marrow, of Nature.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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Nature has from the first expanded the minute blossoms of the forest only toward the heavens, above men's heads and unobserved bythem. We see only the flowers that are under our feet in the meadows.
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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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If you indulge in long periods, you must be sure to have a snapper at the end.
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Live in each season as it passes: breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.
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