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There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, d

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. – Henry David Thoreau

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Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient. – Thomas Aquinas

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. – John Lubbock

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Im so not stylish by nature, but Ive learned to work with what I have. – Julie Bowen

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The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. – Author Unknown

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