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“The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body - has a spirit - is organic - and fluid to the influence of its spirit - and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.” Henry David Thoreau

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“I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don’t get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next. ” Henry David Thoreau 

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“We need the tonic of wildness.” Henry David Thoreau

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“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other …” Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

“By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.” Henry David Thoreau

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“Here is this vast, savage, hovering mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man.” Henry David Thoreau, “Walking”

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“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life … When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.” Henry David Thoreau

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” Henry David Thoreau

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“The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost.” Henry David Thoreau

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“The earth I tread on is not a dead inert mass. It is a body - has a spirit - is organic - and fluid to the influence of its spirit - and to whatever particle of the spirit is in me.” Henry David Thoreau

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“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” Henry David Thoreau

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.” Henry David Thoreau

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“I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.” Henry Thoreau

“I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods

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