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If it's life you're after — real life, the history of life, the ebb of life, the flow of life — the river is the place. - Thoreau

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. - Thoreau

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

The heart is forever inexperienced. - Thoreau

This is June, the month of grass and leaves … already the aspens are trembling again, and a new summer is offered me. - Thoreau

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. - Thoreau

Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day. - Thoreau