Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.


Society and Solitude and Other Essays (ed. 1871)


Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his ...

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his ...

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his ...

Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is thenatural of each, his ...