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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

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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 fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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