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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

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Nationality: American

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Born: July 12th, 1817

Died: May 6th, 1862

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