How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
JOHN BURROUGHSWomen are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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