Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
JOHN BURROUGHSEvery species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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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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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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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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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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