"What is the singing of birds, or..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
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“It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.”
“I should consider it a greater success to interest one wise and earnest soul, than a million unwise and frivolous.”
“The most interesting thing which I heard of, in this township of Hull, was an unfailing spring, whose locality was pointed out tome on the side of a distant hill, as I was panting along the shore, though I did not visit it. Perhaps, if I should go through Rome, it would be some spring on the Capitoline Hill I should remember the longest.”
More on Love
“It is the missed opportunity that counts, and in a love that vainly yearns from behind prison bars you have perchance the love supreme.”
“It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.”
“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”
More on Nature
“I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.”
“Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.”
“Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding waters; And so right many fair things I might praise; Yet nothing is so radiant and so fair As for souls childless, with desire sore-smitten, To see the light of babes about the house.”