Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man — a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.

Here is this vast, savage, howling mother of ours, Nature, lying all around, with such beauty, and such affection for her children, as the leopard; and yet we are so early weaned from her breast to society, to that culture which is exclusively an interaction of man on man — a sort of breeding in and in, which produces at most a merely English nobility, a civilization destined to have a speedy limit.

– Henry David Thoreau –

Walking

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