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We can never have enough of Nature.
Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau
Age: 44 †
Born: 1817
Born: July 12
Died: 1862
Died: May 6
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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself.
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