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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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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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