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Sight Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not…
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its…
- The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
- A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never…
- Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge…
- There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
- Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I climbed…
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