I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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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.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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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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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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