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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

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Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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I crave and seek a natural explanation of all phenomena upon this earth, but the word ‘natural’ to me implies more than mere chemistry and physics.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth.
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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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August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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 have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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