There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at…

Henry David Thoreau
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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 (2013). The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, p.29, Simon and Schuster
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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 (2013). The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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