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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

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We are more of the earth,Farther from heaven these days.

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No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.

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When I consider that the nobler animal have been exterminated here - the cougar, the panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, dear, the beaver, th...more

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Talk of heaven! ye disgrace earth.

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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to t...more

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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of...more

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There are some who complain most energetically and inconsolably of any, because they are, as they say, doing their duty. I also have in my mind that s...more

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We need the tonic of wildness...At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and une...more