Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
JOHN BURROUGHSNot so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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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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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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