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Henry David Thoreau
“Sometimes, in a summer morning,
having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise
till noon, rapt in a revery, amidst the pines and hickories and sumachs,
in undisturbed solitude and stillness, while the birds sing around or
flitted noiseless through the house, until by the sun falling in at
my west window, or the noise of some traveller's wagon on the distant
highway, I was reminded of the lapse of time. I grew in those seasons
like corn in the night, and they were far better than any work of the
hands would have been. They were not time subtracted from my life, but
so much over and above my usual allowance. I realized what the Orientals
mean by contemplation and the forsaking of works. For the most part, I
minded not how the hours went. The day advanced as if to light some
work of mine; it was morning, and lo, now it is evening, and nothing
memorable is accomplished.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
“One farmer says to me, 'You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
“I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
“I silently smiled at my incessant good fortune.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

Henry David Thoreau
“Men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men.”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

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