"To be awake is to be alive."
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"If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man."
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"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
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"Trees indeed have hearts."
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"There has always been the same amount of light in the world. The new and missing stars, the comets and eclipses, do not affect thegeneral illumination, for only our glasses appreciate them."
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"Live free, child of the mist,- and with respect to knowledge we are allchildren of the mist."
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"I grow savager and savager every day, as if fed on raw meat, and my tameness is only the repose of untamableness. I dream of looking abroad summer and winter, with free gaze, from some mountain-side,... to be nature looking into nature with such easy sympathy as the blue-eyed grass in the meadow looks in the face of the sky. From some such recess I would put forth sublime thoughts daily, as the plant puts forth leaves."
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"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts, whose windows and doors are halfconcealed, but from whose chimneys the smoke cheerfully ascends.... We enjoy now, not an Oriental, but a Boreal leisure, around warm stoves and fireplaces, and watch the shadow of motes in the sunbeams."
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"Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it."
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"The stars are the apexes of what triangles!"
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"None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
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"The West of which I speak is but another name for the Wild, and what I have been preparing to say is, that in Wildness is the preservation of the World"
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"I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful."
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"How full of the creative genius is the air in which these [snowflakes] are generated! I should hardly admire them more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat. Nature is full of genius. Full of the divinity. So that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand."
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"Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it."
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"He who walks alone, waits for no-one."
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"To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
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"Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil."
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