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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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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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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.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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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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