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The Indian...stands free and unconstrained in Nature, is her inhabitant and not her guest, and wears her easily and gracefully. But the civilized man has the habits of the house. His house is a prison.

Henry David Thoreau

1841

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Thoreau, Henry David. "April 26 [1841]." I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau, edited by Jeffrey S. Cramer. Yale University Press, 2007.

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Thoreau, Henry David. Journal entry. 26 Apr. 1841.

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