Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
JOHN BURROUGHSSome scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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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.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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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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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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