Whats the use of a fine house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on - "Henry David Thoreau"

Whats the use of a fine house if you havent got a tolerable planet to put it on
Henry David Thoreau

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In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the BhagavadGita in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity and I may say innocence with Nature herself.
- Henry David Thoreau