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Thoreau
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If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers, be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself.
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― Walden; or, Life in the Woods
― Walden; or, Life in the Woods
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I realize that in giving birth, managing a household, raising a child, and composting potato peels in a city, I have learned some things about wildness that even Thoreau could not have known.
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― Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness
― Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness

































