Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary.
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It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination.Henry David Thoreau
Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and Spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature, if the prospect of an early morning walk does not banish sleep, if the warble of the first bluebird does not thrill you, know that the morning and spring of your life are past. Thus you may feel your pulse.
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We falsely attribute to men a determined character putting together all their yesterdays and averaging them we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support it is worse than a large family he is the silent poor indeed.
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor.
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.
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