A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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