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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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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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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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 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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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