O Earth, that hast no voice, confide to me a voice O harvest of my lands O boundless summer growths O lavish, brown, parturient earth O infinite, teeming womb A verse to seek, to see, to narrate thee.
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In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.Walt Whitman
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
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Have you heard that it was good to gain the day? I also say it is good to fall, battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.
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The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his wife and the young husband sleeps by his wife and these tend inward to me, and I tend outward to them, and such as it is to be of these more or less I am, and of these one and all I weave the song of myself.
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