Howard de Walden

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“Think of submitting our measure to the advice of politicians! I would as soon submit the subject of the equality of a goose to a fox.”
—Anna Howard Shaw (1847–1919)

“All our Concord waters have two colors at least; one when viewed at a distance, and another, more proper, close at hand.... Walden is blue at one time and green at another, even from the same point of view. Lying between the earth and the heavens, it partakes of the color of both.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)