"As I love nature, as I love..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau
As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend.
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“Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.”
“We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.”
“If labor mainly, or to any considerable degree, serves the purpose of a police, to keep men out of mischief, it indicates a rottenness at the foundation of our community.”
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“I was too young to know how to love her.”
“Chain me with roaring bears;Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;Or bid me go into a new-made grave,And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.”
“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”
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“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”
“Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as well as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born. What would the world be like without music or rivers or the green and tender grass? What would this world be like without dogs?”
“Why should anyone be afraid of change? What can take place without it? What can be more pleasing or more suitable to universal nature? Can you take your bath without the firewood undergoing a change? Can you eat without the food undergoing a change? And can anything useful be done without change? Don't you see that for you to change is just the same, and is equally necessary for universal nature?”