Thoreau

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“Men are as innocent as the morning to the unsuspicious.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Give me time enough, and I may like it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Fishermen, hunters, woodchoppers, and others, spending their lives in the fields and woods, in a peculiar sense a part of Nature themselves, are often in a more favorable mood for observing her, in the intervals of their pursuits, than philosophers or poets even, who approach her with expectation. She is not afraid to exhibit herself to them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)