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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.

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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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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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Another Country Essayist Generally Literature Orde People Stand
Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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