Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not…

Henry David Thoreau
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.403, Penguin
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Hope and the future for me are not in lawns and cultivated fields, not in towns and cities, but in the impervious and quaking swamps. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2012). The Portable Thoreau, p.403, Penguin

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