When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.
Walden and On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
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if not before. It is said that Deucalion and Pyrrha created men by throwing stones over their heads behind them:–
Inde genus durum sumus, experiensque laborum
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