I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.261, Penguin
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- We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
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- I love nature, I love the landscape, because it is so sincere. It never cheats me. It never jests. It is cheerfully, musically earnest. I lie and relie on the earth. β¨ Henry David Thoreau (2013). Del β¦ βΆ
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