Thoreau

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“Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement. Their truth is instantly translated; its literal monument alone remains.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Poetry is the only life got, the only work done, the only pure product and free labor of man, performed only when he has put all the world under his feet, and conquered the last of his foes.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)