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Ten Quotes from Thoreau's "Walking"
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"Here is the library, but his study is out of doors." (52)
"Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so-called,
as the building of houses, and cutting down of the forest
and of all large trees, simply deform the landscape,
and make it more and more tame and cheap." (53)
"At present, in this vicinity, the best part of the land
is not private property; the landscape is not owned,
and the walker enjoys comparative freedom." (56)
"To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly
to exclude yourself from the enjoyment of it.
Let us improve our opportunities, then,
before the evil days come." (56)
It is said that knowledge is power, and the like." (69)
"A man's ignorance sometimes is not only
useful, but beautiful--while his knowledge,
so-called, is often times worse than useless,besides being ugly." (69)
Above all, we cannot afford not to live in the present." (73)
"Our ancestors were savages."
"The best part of the land is not private property."
"Methinks it would be some advantage
to Philosophy, if men were named merely,
in the gross, as they were known."
"The poets of the world will be inspired
by American mythology."
"I do not know of any poetry to quote
which adequately expresses this yearning
for the wild."
"Living much out of doors in the sun and wind
will no doubt produce a certain roughness of character."
"In short, all good things
are wild and free."
"How near to good is what is wild."
"The most alive is the wildest." (62)