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John Burroughs

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
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Benefit Cicilivzation Country Enjoy Good Perhaps Prevail Safe Test
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
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
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
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
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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Bee Common Death Dispose Nothing Queen Rival Royalty String Strive
Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Family Grossbeak High Native Orchard Rose Starling Ways
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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August Beautiful Calm Ease Hawk Hen High Leisure Majestic Month Most Movement Noticeable Sail
How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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Aspiration Flight Free Holiday Human Live Many Poet Realize Song Suggestion
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Achieve Excite Fire Heaven Look Moon More Rekindle Simplicity Star Wear
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Bird Cook Corroborative Crow Evidence Incipient Spring
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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Attention Develop Direct Figure History Important Literacy Often People Religion

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