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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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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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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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