If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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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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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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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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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