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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIn 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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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