Quotes from Henry David Thoreau.
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Thoreau visited the Maine Highlands area in the 1840's and 50's. His trip diaries were posthumously published as "The Maine Woods." Thoreau is known for his writings on nature, but was not much of an outdoorsman. He once asked if some moose horns they had come upon in the woods were recently shed. His guide then pointed out that they were still attached to the skull. Thoreau was better with politics. His revolutionary work on civil disobedience influenced Gandhi, Tolstoy and many others.
Here are some fitting Thoreau quotes for the Maine Highlands;
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"How far men go for the material of their houses! The inhabitants of the most civilized cities, in all ages, send into far, primitive forests, beyond the bounds of their civilization, where the moose and bear and savage dwell, for their pine boards for ordinary use. And, on the other hand, the savage soon receives from cities iron arrow-points, hatchets, and guns, to point his savageness with."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
And, "If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen."
"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled."
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