We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
JOHN BURROUGHSNothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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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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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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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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