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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

John Burroughs

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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Book Constant Friend Great Life Most Name Nature Precious Resource Three
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Admiration Beauty Equal Marvel Summer Winter Wonder World
I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Abstract Comoextion Concrete Doctrine Each Man Matter Origin People Quality Revolution Sure
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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Chewink Direct Mark More Ornithologist Principle Same Sparrow Wood
It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Arbitrary Causation Evolution Exceptional Greatly Link Out Realm Seem Situation
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Botany Delight Dull Most People Perennial School Study Taught Young
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Carriage Communication Establish Feel House Love Magnetic Man More Plant Potted Soil Sole Take Root Touch
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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Animal Depend Hime Home Many Outfit Outswim Reason Resourcefulness Some Time Upon
Emerson stands apart from the other poets and essayists of New England, and of English literature generally, as of another order.
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Another Country Essayist Generally Literature Orde People Stand
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Christianity Civilization Development Done Eighteen Hundred Science Year
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
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.
JOHN BURROUGHS

Bird Buoyancy Ecstatic Frame Heart Idea Intense Large Lung Poet Scale Song Suggestion Symbol Top Vehement

To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.

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