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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
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In society you will not find health, but in nature.
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Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
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Thousands of God's wild blessings will search you and soak you as if you were sponge, and the big days will go by uncounted.
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Some day the world will understand that, and the little oases on the windy tops of hills will harbor for healing its ailing, house-weary broods.
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Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.