Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Wa…

Henry David Thoreau
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Nature is an admirable schoolmistress. ✨ Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson (1865). Letters to Various Persons, p.158
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