Famous Quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy

Below are famous quotes by Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Chapter 1: Economy - US Transcendentalist author (1817 - 1862).

The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly.

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