"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."
― Henry David Thoreau
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History
― Henry David Thoreau
More From Henry David Thoreau
- "As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness."
- "Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
- "Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent."
More In History
- "Governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it."― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- "Secretly, I’m a real big nerd. I’d rather stay home and play Scrabble than go to a Hollywood party, any day of the week. And I love reading about history and watching the Discovery Channel."― Sprague Grayden
- "Life isn’t meant to be easy. It’s hard to take being on the top – or on the bottom. I guess I’m something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things… Life is one crisis after another."― Richard M. Nixon