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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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In society you will not find health, but in nature.
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Nature has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.
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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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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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The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation
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if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours