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I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.

Henry David Thoreau
Men, Views, Attention
Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.83, Courier Corporation
I do not value any view of the universe into which man and the institutions of man enter very largely and absorb much of the attention. Man is but the place where I stand, and the prospect hence is infinite.