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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.

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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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Heal Nature Order Put Sense Soothed
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Each Find Short Still Think Through Too
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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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All Beautiful Bound Clime Endowed Every Grace Know Master Vagabond
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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