Quote #44

It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

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  1. This bird sees the white man come and the Indian withdraw, but it withdraws not. Its untamed voice is still heard above the tinkling of the…
  2. If you are describing any occurrence... make two or more distinct reports at different times... We discriminate at first only a few feature…
  3. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
  4. The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. I…
  5. The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-s…
  6. You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake; you must be able to extract nutrime…
  7. Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
  8. The savage in man is never quite eradicated.

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