"When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!""
"The first man to fence in a piece of land, saying "this is mine" and who found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society."
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Source: Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
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