Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth. -Walt Whitman

 

Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.


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This quote is just one of 41 total Walt Whitman quotes in our collection. Walt Whitman is known for saying 'Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.' as well as some of the following quotes.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Walt Whitman
263

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Walt Whitman
262
You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. -Walt Whitman
258

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

Walt Whitman
252

The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman
250
Be curious, not judgmental. -Walt Whitman
250

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.

Walt Whitman
242