No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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