I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy. Deliver me from a city built on the site of a more ancient city, whose materials are ruins, whose gardens cemeteries. The soil is blanched and accursed there, and before that becomes necessary the earth itself will be destroyed. With such reminiscences I repeopled the woods and lulled myself asleep.

الموضع: ¶457
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (WLC), CC BY 4.0

I am not aware that any man has ever built on the spot which I occupy.… — Walden