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Who hears the fishes when they cry? - Thoreau

We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven. - Thoreau

For Carlos Santana

Foolish people imagine that what they imagine is somewhere else. That stuff is not made in any factory but your own. - Thoreau

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Thoreau

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it. - Thoreau

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. - Thoreau

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. - Thoreau

We loiter in winter while it is already spring. - Thoreau

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea. - Thoreau