The 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?
JOHN BURROUGHSHow beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Nearly every season, I make the acquaintance of one or more new flowers. It takes years to exhaust the botanical treasures of any one considerable neighborhood, unless one makes a dead set at it, like an herbalist.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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