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description. Now let's read and relax. Find a comfortable spot. Adjust your volume. Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

To know. And off we go.

Tonight we're relaxing with two essays by Henry David Thoreau. The first appeared in a collection called Excursions, first published in 1863, and the second

is a chapter included in his classic Walden. Let's begin. Night and moonlight.

Chancing to take a memorable walk by moonlight some years ago, I resolved to take more such

walks and make acquaintance with another side of nature.

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