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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.

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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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 homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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