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Every artist does something more than copy Nature; more comes out in his account than goes into the original experience.
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Nature loves such woods, and places her own seal upon them.
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The greatness and the minuteness of nature pass all understanding.
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The emotions excited by the songs of these thrushes belong to a higher order, springing as they do from our deepest sense of the beauty and harmony of the world.