There never was a happier or more devoted husband than the male bluebird. He is the gay champion and escort of the female at all times, and while she is sitting, he feeds her regularly.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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