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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.

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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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