How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
JOHN BURROUGHSThere 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.
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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.
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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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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Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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