Thoreau

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    If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    It was always startling to discover so plain a trail of civilized man there. I remember that I was strangely affected, when we were returning, by the sight of a ring-bolt well drilled into a rock, and fastened with lead, at the head of this solitary Ambejijis Lake.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    For beauty, give me trees with the fur on.
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)