"It's the beauty within us that makes it possible for us to recognize the beauty around us. The question is not what you look at but what you see."
"As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle. In one direction from my house there was a colony of muskrats in the river meadows; under the grove of elms and buttonwoods in the other horizon was a village of busy men, as curious to me as if they had been prarie-dogs, each sitting at the mouth of its burrow, or running over to a neighbor's to gossip. I went there frequently to observe their habits."
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Source: Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Walden: Life in the Woods”, p.105, Gibbs Smith
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