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To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.
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In society you will not find health, but in nature.
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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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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 has taken more care than the fondest parent for the education and refinement of her children.
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The doctrines of despair, of spiritual or political tyranny or servitude, were never taught by such as shared the serenity of nature.