If people walk in the woods for the love of them half of each day, they are in danger of being regarded as loafers; but if they spend their whole days as speculators, shearing off those woods and making earth bald before her time, they are esteemed industrious and enterprising citizens. As if a town had no interest in forests but to cut them down!
-Henry David Thoreau
A Pondering Mind 
4 responses to “If People Walk In The Woods For The Love… Henry David Thoreau”
bonjour Don!
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Bonjour Gys
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You know there is a lot of truth in that and so sad!
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Thoreau could see all this happening, and most of what he said has come true…
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