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The dear privacy and retirement and solitude which winter makes possible!
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·December 8, 1850
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Now at least the moon is full, and I walk alone, which is best by night, if not by day always.
Henry David Thoreauverified·Journal, Volume II: 1850-September 15, 1851 (ed. Bradford Torrey)·July 12, 1851
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Entomology extends the limits of being in a new direction, so that I walk in nature with a sense of greater space and freedom.
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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.
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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.