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Photo: Jennifer Adams
"After
a still winter night I awoke with the impression that some
question had been put to me, which I had been endeavoring
in vain to answer in my sleep, as what—how—when—where?
But there was dawning Nature, in whom all creatures live,
looking in at my broad windows with serene and satisfied
face, and no question on her lips. I awoke to an answered
question, to Nature and daylight. The snow lying deep on
the earth dotted with young pines, and the very slope of
the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!"
—Henry
David Thoreau
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