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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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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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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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