Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye…

Henry David Thoreau
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, p.9, Courier Corporation
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Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). The Heart of Thoreau's Journals, p.9, Courier Corporation

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