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As I love nature, as I love singing birds...I love thee, my friend. - Thoreau

Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then. - Thoreau

The savage in man is never quite eradicated. - Thoreau

If I put my head deliberately into the fire, there is no appeal to fire or to the maker of fire, and I have only myself to blame. - Thoreau

He who hears the rippling of rivers in these degenerate days will not utterly despair. - Thoreau

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. - Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? - Thoreau

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor. - Thoreau

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau

“Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.” - Thoreau