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Cities do not give the human senses enough room
Drawn from what Ralph Waldo Emerson said
What Ralph Waldo Emerson actually said
- Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist and lecturer (1803 to 1882)
Cities give not the human senses room enough. We go out daily and nightly to feed the eyes on the horizon, and require so much scope, just as we need water for our bath.
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↗Essays, Second Series (1844)gutenberg.org
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