I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe 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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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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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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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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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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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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