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Consider the turtle. A whole summer - June, July, and August - is not too good nor too much to hatch a turtle in. Perchance you have worried yourself, despaired of the world, meditated the end of life, and all things seemed rushing to destruction; but nature has steadily and serenely advanced with a turtle's pace.
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~ Henry David Thoreau
from a journal entry, 1856
art by Roderick Maclver
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