To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.

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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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Breasted Bred Democratic Distant Grossbeak Native Orchard Starling Ways
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.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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 More Rekindle Star
My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.

JOHN BURROUGHS

My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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Both Favorite Fortunate Lucky Seem Star Tide Under
Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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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Foster Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy More Nail Rivet Some Very
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Chalk Clay Granite Marble Marl
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Mysterious Sublime
To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.

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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Fierce Insect Many Other Prototype Together
Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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!

JOHN BURROUGHS

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 Ease Hawk Hen Leisure Majestic Month Most Noticeable
There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.

JOHN BURROUGHS

There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
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Bluebird Devote Escort Fed Happy Male More Regular
When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.

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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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Ancestor Apelike Conclusion Descended Draw Feel Most Publish Shock
The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.

JOHN BURROUGHS

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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Mean Mere Own Something Term
Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.

JOHN BURROUGHS

Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Bless Congenial Occupation Outlet Some
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

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

JOHN BURROUGHS

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

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