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The charming landscape which I saw this morning, is indubitably made up of some twenty or thirty farms. Miller owns this field, Locke that, and Manning the woodland beyond. But none of them owns the landscape. There is a property in the horizon which no man has but he whose eye can integrate all the parts, that is, the poet. This is the best part of these men's farms, yet to this their warranty-deeds give no title.

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Nature (1836); Exact wording and attribution checked. Transcendentalist reflections on natural beauty and the relation of the perceiving mind to the natural world.
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