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“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a heart like our own must be beating in every crystal and cell, and we feel like stopping to speak to the plants and animals as friendly fellow-mountaineers. Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go.”

Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition

“Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and creative. Children, the weak minded, and the timid are full of fancy. Men and women of intellect, of great intellect, are alone possessed of great imagination.”

Men Children Different Imagination Animal Creative Intellectual Men And Women Weak Intellect Active Former Fancy Latter Faculty Possessed Passive Great Imagination

Book:Pensées of Joubert

Source: Pensées of Joubert

“Society is indeed a contract. Subordinate contracts for objects of mere occasional interest may be dissolved at pleasure - but the state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco, or some other such low concern, to be taken up for a little temporary interest, and to be dissolved by the fancy of the parties. It is to be looked on with other reverence, because it is not a partnership in things subservient only to the gross animal existence of a temporary and perishable nature.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.”

Character Church Animal Civilization Kitchen Fancy Suspects Quantity Reformation Animal Food

Book:Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American

Source: Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American