"The thought of what I am, of my pitiful conduct, deters me from receiving what joy I might from the glorious days that visit me . . . [But] what is this beauty in the landscape but a certain fertility IN ME? I look in vain to see it realized but in my own life. If I could wholly cease to be ashamed of myself, I think that all my days would be fair."
Henry David Thoreau
Photo: Three-leaved sumac bushes ablaze on a perfect autumn day; Near Livermore, CO; October 12, 2013. Thoreau, like so many of us, was prone to self-deprecation.
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