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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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Bird Buoyancy Ecstatic Frame Heart Idea Intense Large Lung Poet Scale Song Suggestion Symbol Top Vehement
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
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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Active Business Community Engage Generation Like Time Tree Trunk
One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
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England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Always Comparitively Country Drought Green Margin Near Run Source Spring Summer Winter
The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Bird City Country Drain Food Forest Home Pool Supply
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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After All Begin Bought Main Money Real Sold Thing Value
No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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Charitably Country Else Give Kindly Look Much Pass Pedestrian Take
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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Build Doubtless Fall Hold Injury Leap Miss One Reason Reckless Squirrels Sustain Tree
We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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Communing Nature Ourselves Talk We
One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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Battle Braten May One Philosophy Summon Till
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
You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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Extra Home Operate Possess Seem Sense Some Time Unerringly
Leap, and the net will appear.
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Appear Leap Net Will
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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Attention Develop Direct Figure History Important Literacy Often People Religion
The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Act Always Key Layer Own Speak Start Top Truth Voice
My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Anybody Follow Imitate Inward Look Motto Try Voice
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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Animal Bird Consciousness Know Probably Self Think
The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Heaven Kingdom Mind Place State
In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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Cloud Dispel Great Help Lamp Light Maple October Room Window
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
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 have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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Discover Secret Happiness Work

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