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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.

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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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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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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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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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.
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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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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 seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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