I cannot make my days longer so I strive to make them better.Henry David Thoreau
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, in front of the essential facts of life.”
Writer, naturalist · 1817 – 1862
American writer known for Walden (1854) and the essay Civil Disobedience.
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