QuoteQuest“Talk of mysteries! — Think of our life in nature, — daily to be shown matter, to come in contact with it, — rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks! The solid earth! the actual world! the common sense! Contact! Contact! Who are we? where are we?”
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- Title
- Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
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The Maine Woods (1848) Ktaadn
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Thoreau, Henry David. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Henry David Thoreau. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
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