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There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul.

A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.

In wilderness is the preservation of the world.

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.