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Chapter 112 Conclusion - 1

Walden 亨利·大卫·梭罗 1197Words 2018-03-18
If you are ill, the doctor will wisely advise you to move and change the air.Thankfully, the world is not limited here.Buckeyes don't grow in New England, and mockingbirds are rarely heard here.Wild geese are more cosmopolitan than we are, breakfasting in Canada, lunching in Ohio, and grooming at night on the southern bays.Even the bison follows the seasons quite a bit, grazing on the Colorado ranch until the greener and sweeter grass awaits it in Yellowstone.Yet we human beings think that if we take down the railing or the hedge, and put a stone wall round the field, our lives will be bounded, and our destiny will be settled.If you're picked as a town clerk, you won't be able to travel to Fuego this summer, but you'll probably be in hellfire.The universe is bigger than what we see.

More often, however, we should look around the stern like curious travelers, and not travel like foolish sailors, bowing their heads and tearing up the sacks.In fact, the other side of the earth is nothing but the people we communicate with.Our trip is just a big circle, and the prescription prescribed by the doctor can only cure your skin disease.Someone went to South Africa to chase a giraffe, but it wasn't the animal he should be chasing.How long do you think a person has been chasing giraffes?Snipe and woodchuck is also a rare game, and I think shooting yourself would be a more noble sport. ——

"Turn your eyes inward,
You'll discover a thousand places in your mind that you haven't discovered.
Then go on a trip,
Become a geography expert on home cosmology. " What does Africa mean—and what does the West represent?Isn't there an empty space on our inner map?Once discovered, isn't it as dark as the seashore?Shall we discover the source of the Nile, or of the Niger, or of the Mississippi, or the Northwest Corridor of our continent?Are these the questions most relevant to humanity?Is Sir Franklin the only Arctic explorer who has gone missing, and that is why his wife must be so anxious to find him.Did Mr. Grinnell know where he was?Make yourself a Mengo Pike, Lewis, Clark, and Frobbyshow who surveys your own rivers and seas; go explore your own higher latitudes,—with canned meat on board, if necessary, to To keep you alive, you can also pile empty cans as high as the sky as a sign.Was canned meat invented just to preserve meat?No, you have to be a Columbus, find a new continent and a new world in your own heart, and open up straits, not for business, but for the circulation of ideas.Everyone is the master of his own domain, and compared with this domain, the Tsar's empire is only a small country, a small bump in the ice and snow.However, some people don't know how to respect themselves, but talk too much about patriotism, and make the majority a victim for the sake of the few.They love the land where they die, and ignore the spirit that animates their bodies.Patriotism is just a fantasy in their minds.What does the South China Sea Expedition mean?Such ostentation, such expense, he said indirectly, only admitted the fact that in the world of spiritual life, although there are oceans and continents, each of them is only a peninsula and an island, yet he does not go to This adventure; but he sat in the middle of a great ship assigned to him by the government, and sailed thousands of miles through cold, storm, and cannibalism, with five hundred sailors and servants to serve him; It is much easier to explore the inner ocean than to explore the Atlantic and Pacific alone.

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