I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
JOHN BURROUGHSJoy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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