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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

John Burroughs

The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Character Delicacy Feminine Influence Masculine Mind Perception Quickness Sympathy
How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Beautiful Color Day Grow How Last Leave Light Old
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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Agent Animal Course Develop Fear Hunger Intelligence Love Lower Man
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Admiration Beauty Equal Marvel Summer Winter Wonder World
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Age Formative Height Idealistic People Prophet Spirit Spokesman Sunshine Voice Youth
The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Anger Beast Dog Door Known Often Probably Quick Resent Show Slam
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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Cloud Dispel Great Help Lamp Light Maple October Room Window
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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Arbitrary Causation Evolution Exceptional Greatly Link Out Realm Seem Situation
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Equal Frost Fruit Goodbye Marriage Run Sap Sun Sweet Winter
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Achieve Excite Fire Heaven Look Moon More Rekindle Simplicity Star Wear
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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After Climb Form Ladder Lower Man Pull Some
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
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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