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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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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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 smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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