Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots.
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. Passages from the American Note-Books. Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
He was talking about teh importance of getting people to learn about and know birds and other wildlife so then they would be enviornmentally conscious by wanting to take care of the wildlife. However, this quotation has much more generality, in that this characeristic of human nature seems to apply to immigrants, people of different religions and even of different polarized political subgroups. Contact with and knowing others tends to induce empathy, care, concern adn love.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
