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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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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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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.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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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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