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Walden Or, Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...ere divested of their clothes. Could you, in such a case, tell surely of any company of civilized men, which belonged to the most respected class? Whe... ... not soon get upon their legs again, and then there would be some one in the company with a maggot in his head, hatched from an egg deposited there no... ...outh, where a woodchuck had formerly dug his burrow, down through sumach and blackberry roots, and the lowest stain of vegetation, six feet square by ... ...has not faith, he will continue to live like the rest of the world, whatever company he is joined to. To co¨ operate, in the highest as well as the lo... ... us rise early and fast, or break fast, gently and without perturbation; let company come and let company go, let the bells ring and the children cry,... .... A bird sits on the next bough, life everlasting grows under the table, and blackberry vines run round its legs; pine cones, chestnut burs, and straw... ...h a narrow footpath led down the hill. In my front yard grew the strawberry, blackberry, and life everlasting, johnswort and golden rod, shrub oaks a... ... sills. A young forest growing up un der your windows, and wild sumachs and blackberry vines breaking through into your cellar; sturdy pitch pines ru... ...inating in a shrub oak copse where I could rest in the shade, the other in a blackberry field where the green berries deepened their tints by the time ...

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