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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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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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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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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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