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

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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Exolutionist Geologist Pretty Sure
There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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Easier Moral Sermon Spark Stone
The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Book During Emerson Establish Fame Gave Lifetime Thinker World Writer
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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly
On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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Any Great Make More Poet Portray Suggests Understood Value Whitman
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Both Favorite Fortunate Life Lucky Seem Star Tide Under

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