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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Bottom Cell Eave Fine Hair Like Microscopical Rootlet Top
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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City Come Effect Generation Sometimes Through Worry
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
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
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
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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All Experience Light Naturist See Thing World
To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Again Body Death Fierce Human Insect Many Other Prototype Soul Struggle Together
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Each Find Short Still Think Through Too
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
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 art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Art Betray Bird Conceal Kind Material Position Secret Tradition Violation Weave
The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Alon Alone Being Concern Develop Disinterest Endow Intelligence Own Primarily Safety Seem Self
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

End Eternal Find Meditate More Mystery Nature Near Origin Out Way World Yet

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