Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
JOHN BURROUGHSNaturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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 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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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