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Sunday, March 18, 2007 - What Henry wrote

I just decided that my new favourite blog is The Blog of Henry David Thoreau. 150 years ago he kept a journal, and now it can be read as a blog. Here's what he wrote on March 18, 1858:

"Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and          when we hear it again it is remembered like a dream, reminding us of a previous state of existence. How happens it that the associations it awakens are always pleasing, never saddening; reminiscences of our sanest hours? The voice of nature is always encouraging."

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Friday, March 23, 2007 - Words of wisdom

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"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn" - H D Thoreau

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