"Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.
More Henry David Thoreau quotes
"What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
"When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, th...
"Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.
"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
"We now no longer camp as for a night, but have settled down on earth and forgotten heaven
"This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of...