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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!

Tell all my friends in Concord that I do not send my love, but retain it still.

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

My most sacred and memorable life is commonly on awaking in the morning.

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

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

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

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

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.