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To know only artificial night is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.

Henry Beston

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Henry Beston
Age: 79 †
Born: 1888
Born: June 1
Died: 1968
Died: April 15
Naturalist
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Artificial
Absurd
Evil
Night

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