By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property...the landscape is deformed.

Henry David Thoreau

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden; or, Life in the Woods. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1854.

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Thoreau, Henry David. "The Bean-Field." Walden and Civil Disobedience. Signet, 2012.

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A quote by Henry David Thoreau about property rights: “By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none…”

A quote by Henry David Thoreau about property rights: “By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none…”

A quote by Henry David Thoreau about property rights: “By avarice and selfishness, and a grovelling habit, from which none…”