Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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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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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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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