Have you half hours that you know would be best spent in company lower than that with which you pretend to be accustomed? Consider, then, spending some of those half hours with lower animals.
This book tells one man’s own such story:
Half Hours with the Lower Animals: Protozoans, Sponges, Corals, Shells, Insects, and Crustaceans, Charles Frederick Holder, American Book Company, 1905.