Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
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I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
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We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
Henry David Thoreau
With a knowledge of the name comes a more distinct recognition and knowledge of the thing.
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