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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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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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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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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