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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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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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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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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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