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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.

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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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Afford Bless Complete Congenial Force Heart Man Occupation Outlet Some
Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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City Come Effect Generation Sometimes Through Worry
The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Bottom Cell Eave Fine Hair Like Microscopical Rootlet Top
To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Bottom Delicacy Extreme Leave Live Mechanism Microspocial Nothing Remarkable
I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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Chemistry Crave Earth Explain Implies More Natural Nature Phenomena Physics Seen World
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Affirmative Always Believe Deny Easier Mind Nature
Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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Acquaintance Botanical Early Every Exhaust Flower More Neighborhood New Season Treasure
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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Bird Cook Corroborative Crow Evidence Incipient Spring
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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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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Flower Less More Name Still Strange Without
The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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Among Dance Easily Expedition Gather Haunt Little Place Pond Rock She Star Take
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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Did Nobody Once Somebody Want
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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Crave Lover Nature Observe Unadulterated Unsweetened
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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