"Most
men, it appears to me, do not care for Nature, and would sell their share in
all her beauty, for as long as they may live, for a stated and not very large
sum. Thank God they cannot yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
We are safe on that side for the present. It is for the very reason that some
do not care for these things that we need to combine to protect all from the
vandalism of the few."
Written by the late, great Henry David
Thoreau (1817 –1862), in the 1861 essay
‘Huckleberries’.
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