"I take infinite pains to know all the phenomena of the spring for instance, thinking that I have here the entire poem, and then, to my chagrin, I hear that it is but an imperfect copy that I possess and have read, that my ancestors have torn out many of the first leaves and grandest passages, and mutilated it in many places. I should not like to think that some demigod had come before and picked out some of the best of the stars. I wish to know an entire heaven and an entire earth."
Henry David Thoreau
Journals, March 23, 1856
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