23.365 Simplifications

[thoreau]

January 23, 1858, "To insure health, a man’s relation to Nature must come very near to a personal one; he must be conscious of a friendliness in her; when human friends fail or die, she must stand in the gap to him. I cannot conceive of any life which deserves the name, unless there is a certain tender relation to Nature. This it is which makes winter warm, and supplies society in the desert and wilderness. Unless Nature sympathizes with us and speaks to us, as it were, the most fertile and blooming regions are barren and dreary." - The Diary of Henry David Thoreau


Title: The Leaf Galaxy
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