“There seem to be two sides
of this world, presented us at different times, as we see things in growth or
dissolution, in life or death. For seen with the eye of the poet, as God sees
them, all things are alive and beautiful; but seen with the historical eye, or
eye of the memory, they are dead and offensive. If we see Nature as pausing,
immediately all mortifies and decays; but seen as progressing, she is
beautiful.”
- Journal of Henry David Thoreau, March 13,
1842
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