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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.

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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Every 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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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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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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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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