One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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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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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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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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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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