The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled. (Henry David Thoreau)

The perch swallows the grub-worm, the pickerel swallows the perch, and the fisherman swallows the pickerel and so all the chinks in the scale of being are filled.

Henry David Thoreau

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