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“I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world. . .”

Henry David Thoreau continues, “for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.” This beautiful image of Thoreau watching the stars from the deck of a boat comes right after … Continue reading

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