methinks I should hear with indifference if a trustworthy messenger were to inform me that the sun drowned himself last night
10.05.2006
Thoreau's Journal: 04-Oct-1859
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know. I do not get nearer by a hair’s breadth to any natural object so long as I presume that I have an introduction to it from some learned man. To conceive of it with a total apprehension I must for the thousandth time approach it as something totally strange. If you would make acquaintance with the ferns you must forget your botany.
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