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"The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?"

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About Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, naturalist, and philosopher associated with Transcendentalism. He is best known for Walden and Civil Disobedience, works that influenced environmental thought and civil rights movements.

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