"I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted."

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I walk out into a nature such as the old prophets and poets Menu, Moses, Homer, Chaucer, walked in. You may name it America, but it is not America. Neither Americus Vespucius, nor Columbus, nor the rest were the discoverers of it. There is a truer account of it in Mythology than in any history of America so called that I have seen.

— Henry David Thoreau