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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.

John Burroughs

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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Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
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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Another Country Essayist Generally Literature Orde People Stand
Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Bunt Cow Feet Forward Movement Oven Quall Walk
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Cloud Dispel Great Help Lamp Light Maple October Room Window
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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Anger Beast Dog Door Known Often Probably Quick Resent Show Slam
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Better Deed Greatest Intention Small
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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Activity Comercial Like Live Other Participation Political Science Scientific Sociology Spectator Ten Thousand
Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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More Nature Preach Teach
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Bristling Bud Climate Concept Congenial Grown Human Many Nature Promise Thorn
Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Feeling Intensely Most People Repugnant Shock Thought
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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All Experience Light Naturist See Thing World
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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All Book Friend Read See Walk Want
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Botany Delight Dull Most People Perennial School Study Taught Young
The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bee Common Death Dispose Nothing Queen Rival Royalty String Strive
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Blame Else Fail Man Many Somebody Time
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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Affection Appeal Art Foster Human Impulse Inquiry Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
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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Agent Animal Course Develop Fear Hunger Intelligence Love Lower Man
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Chemistry Crave Earth Explain Implies More Natural Nature Phenomena Physics Seen World
Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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City Discordant Live Thing Unnatural
Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without

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