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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Observation

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We must look a long time before we can see

We must look a long time before we can see

Henry David Thoreau
Long, Looks, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.163, Rowman & Littlefield

We cannot see anything until we are possessed with the idea of it, take it into our heads,--and then we can hardly see anything else.

Henry David Thoreau
Ideas, Experience, Observation
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.

Henry David Thoreau
Looks, Said, Observation
Henry David Thoreau, Steve Grant (2005). “Daily Observations: Thoreau on the Days of the Year”, p.68, Univ of Massachusetts Press

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