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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.

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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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