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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!

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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Country Efficiency Hundred Life Old Person Year
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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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 find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Cattle Cured Each Fright Herd Horse Induce Object One Satisfied Smell Sniff Soon
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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