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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Book During Emerson Establish Fame Gave Lifetime Thinker World Writer
Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
JOHN BURROUGHS

After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Apparent Conscious Execution Human Ironical Laugh Pride Self Something Sort Squirrels
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Advice Bad Certain Earth Hardly Man Positively Take Unless
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
JOHN BURROUGHS

Aspiration Flight Free Holiday Human Live Many Poet Realize Song Suggestion
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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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Early Emerson Find Get Grow Leave Old One Something
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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All Book Friend Read See Walk Want
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Confine Music Nature Sound Strong Susceptive Sweet
Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Abstract Concrete Translate Whitman

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