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.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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He is a reversion to an earlier type, the type of the bard, the skald, the poet-seer.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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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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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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