地球，不只是歷史的斷簡殘編，也不只是有如書頁層層相疊的地層，只供地理學家及考古學家研究之用，而是有生命的詩篇，有如一棵樹的葉子，先於花朵與果實- 不是一個化石星球，而是一個活生生的星球。

The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and antiquaries chiefly, but living poetry like the leaves of a tree, which precede flowers and fruit - not a fossil earth, but a living earth. 


Henry David Thoreau梭羅，湖濱散記 Walden, Spring
The green Thoreau綠色先知，立緒出版
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