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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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