If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
JOHN BURROUGHSEmerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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