The living poetry of the earth (Thoreau)
June 8th, 2006 | Published in Nature, Poetry, Quotes, Work
The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit—not a fossil earth, but a living earth.
—Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854), p. 255