"Music must be listened to; it is not enough to hear it. A duck hears also."

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For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.

— Henry David Thoreau