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LAW / HISTORY > essayist, poet, naturalist > Henry David Thoreau

Whether the flower...

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Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it! Is the scholastic air any advantage?

Source: Reflecting on the possible effect of editing his journals into essays; Journals, 1906, entry for 27 Jan 1852.
-- Henry David Thoreau, (Jul 12 1817-1862), US essayist, poet, naturalist; He is best known for his description of life at Walden Pond, Walden, 1854 and his essay Civil Disobedience, 1849.


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