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The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows 1 the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the ...
The wind sows the seed ; the sun evaporates the sea ; the wind blows 1 the vapor to the field ; the ice , on the other side of the planet , condenses rain on this ; the rain feeds the plant ; the plant feeds the animal ; and thus the ...
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The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides , which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects ...
The succession of native plants in the pastures and roadsides , which makes the silent clock by which time tells the summer hours , will make even the divisions of the day sensible to a keen observer . The tribes of birds and insects ...
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But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of 1 1 VOL . I. 3 1 1 - - these facts , the habit of a plant LANGUAGE . 33.
But marry it to human history , and it is full of life . Whole floras , all Linnæus ' and Buffon's volumes , are dry catalogues of facts ; but the most trivial of 1 1 VOL . I. 3 1 1 - - these facts , the habit of a plant LANGUAGE . 33.
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these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and ...
these facts , the habit of a plant , the organs , or work , or noise of an insect , applied to the illustration of a fact in intellectual philosophy , or in any way associated to human nature , affects us in the most lively and ...
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... every relation , and every proAll things with which we deal , preach to us . What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat , weeds and plants , blight , rain , insects , sun , it is a sacred emblem from the ...
... every relation , and every proAll things with which we deal , preach to us . What is a farm but a mute gospel ? The chaff and the wheat , weeds and plants , blight , rain , insects , sun , it is a sacred emblem from the ...
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| Title | Nature: Addresses, and Lectures Volume 1 of Riverside ed. Complete works |
| Author | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1893 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 22 Oct 2013 |
| Length | 315 pages |
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