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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.

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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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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door held him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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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