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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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