“ Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. ”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854). copy citation
Author | Henry David Thoreau |
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Source | Walden |
Topic | inhabitants human nature |
Date | 1854 |
Language | English |
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Weblink | https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm |
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“How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters, are they! We never learned meanness of them. How much fairer than the pool before the farmer’s door, in which his ducks swim! Hither the clean wild ducks come. Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her. The birds with their plumage and their notes are in harmony with the flowers, but what youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.”
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