The top of a maple tree seen from the ground looking up. The branches are covered in intensely orange-red leaves.
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They that soared so loftily, how contentedly they return to dust again, and are laid low, resigned to lie and decay at the foot of the tree, and afford nourishment to new generations of their kind, as well as to flutter on high! They teach us how to die. One wonders if the time will ever come when men, with their boasted faith in immortality, will lie down as gracefully and as ripe…
#Thoreau from Autumnal Tints
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