"How rarely I meet with a person who can be free, even in thought! We live according to rule. Some people are bedridden; all, world-ridden. I take my neighbor, an intellectual man, out into the woods and invite him to take a new and absolute view of things, to empty clean out his thoughts of all institutions of men and start again; but he can't do it, he sticks to his traditions and his crotchets. He thinks that governments, colleges, newspapers, etc., are from everlasting to everlasting."
Henry David Thoreau, 1857
Photo: Sword Ferns, Hoh Rainforest, Olympic National Park, WA; July 26, 2013
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