The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion o…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.34, Penguin
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The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). The Portable Emerson: New Edition, p.34, Penguin

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