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The same soil is good for men and for trees. A man's health requires as many acres of meadow to his prospect as his farm does loads of muck.
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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A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book.
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The improvements of ages have had but little influence on the essential laws of man's existence: as our skeletons, probably, are not to be distinguished from those of our ancestors.
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The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, that gives birth to imagination...without nature-awakened imagination most persons do not really live in the world, they merely pass through it as they live dull lives of quiet desperation.
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If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
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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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The heart is forever inexperienced.
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I make it my business to extract from Nature what ever nutriment she can furnish me.... I milk the sky and the earth.
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Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
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