Famous Quotes | A perfectly healthy sentence, it...

A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure. - Henry David Thoreau
Attribution: Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. “Sunday,” A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers (1849).

Categories: Author, Naturalist, Philosopher, Writers And Writing

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