To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
JOHN BURROUGHSEvery 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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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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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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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