In a May 20, 1860, letter to Harrison Blake, Thoreau asked:
What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
(Quoted from page 360 of The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: VI - Familiar Letters. F. B. Sanborn, ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company. 1906.)
For a brief biography of Henry David Thoreau, click here. For a brief biography of Harrison Blake, click here.
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