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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 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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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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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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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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The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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