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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

~John Burroughs

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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.

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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.

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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.

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The phoebe-bird is a wise architect and perhaps enjoys as great an immunity from danger, both in its person and its nest, as any other bird. Its modest ashen-gray suit is the color of the rocks where it builds, and the moss of which it makes such free use gives to its nest the look of a natural growth or accretion.

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I always feel that I have missed some good fortune if I am away from home when my bees swarm. What a delightful summer sound it is! How they come pouring out of the hive, twenty or thirty thousand bees, each striving to get out first!

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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.

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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.

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All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: April 3rd, 1837

Died: March 29th, 1921

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