Proverbs 6:6-8

6 Go to the ant, you sluggard;    consider its ways and be wise! 7 It has no commander,    no overseer or ruler, 8 yet it stores its provisions in summer    and gathers its food at harvest.

 The Samurai Must Be Alone With Nature One Week Each Year

But the fount of motives lies in the individual life, it lies in silent and deliberate reflections, and at this, the most striking of all the rules of the samurai aims. For seven consecutive days in the year, at least, each man or woman under the Rule must go right out of all the life of man into some wild and solitary place, must speak to no man or woman, and have no sort of intercourse with mankind. They must go bookless and weaponless, without pen or paper, or money. Provisions must be tak...