Henry David Thoreau’s reason:
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.
(Quoted from page 55 of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau, by Malcolm Clemens Young, Mercer University Press, 2009.)
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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.
(Quoted from page 55 of The Spiritual Journal of Henry David Thoreau, by Malcolm Clemens Young, Mercer University Press, 2009.)
For a brief biography of Henry David Thoreau, click here. For images of and relating to Henry David Thoreau, click here. For a brief biography of Malcolm Clemens Young, click here.
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