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An Analysis Of Thomas Moore's 'Happy Basket'
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In the “ Happy Basket”, Moore writes that one of her ingredients for happiness is “significant contact with natural world”. Do you agree? What is “significant contact” (how much)?
Since I was a baby, I have had a closed sense with natural world. I was really happy whenever my parents brought me to the beach or to the mountain. Immersing myself in sunlight, I heard some sound from birds, chop or rustling of leaves. When I grow up, I'm also feel good whenever I go outside with my family and my friends to observe changing of seasons, climates. On spring, I usually sit under a tree's shadow for smelling germination of tree, and floral. Sometimes, I'm extremely curious about what two birds talk together, and image that I can understand
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