When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk i…

Henry David Thoreau
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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs. ✨ The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde.
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Men have become the tools of their tools. ✨ 1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.
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When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. I love to wander and muse over them in their graves. Here are no lying nor vain epitaphs. ✨ The Essays of Henry D. Thoreau: Selected and Edited by Lewis Hyde.

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