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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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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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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.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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