The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The pu…

Henry David Thoreau
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee. ✨ Henry David Thoreau (2014). The Illustrated A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, p.362, Princeton University Press
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