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.
JOHN BURROUGHSEngland is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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