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depend upon it, you will love your native hills the better for being separated from them

The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!

Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.

Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.

In society you will not find health, but in nature.

Nature will bear the closest inspection; she invites us to lay our eye level with the smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom.