"The show and splendor of great houses, elaborate furnishings, stately halls, oppress me, impose on me. They fix the attention on false values, they set up a false standard of beauty; they stand between me and the real feeders of character and thought."
-- John Burroughs, 1912, "The Gospel of Nature", in Century 84, cited in The Simple Life, Plain Living and High Thinking in American Culture, David E. Shi, 1985/2007, p. 199.
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