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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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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Exolutionist Geologist Pretty Sure
Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Good Little Man Moss Polish Roll Society Stone Thin Travel
To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Advice Bad Certain Earth Hardly Man Positively Take Unless
We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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Baby Birth Bloom Either Event Flower Forever Give Key Laboratory Method Secret
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Blame Else Fail Man Many Somebody Time
The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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All Experience Light Naturist See Thing World
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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Again Body Death Fierce Human Insect Many Other Prototype Soul Struggle Together
Emerson is the spokesman and prophet of youth and of a formative, idealistic age. His is a voice from the heights which are ever bathed in the sunshine of the spirit.
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Age Formative Height Idealistic People Prophet Spirit Spokesman Sunshine Voice Youth
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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Accept Alone Fast Go Guide Hold Science Sole Take Theology Verifiable
England is like the margin of a spring-run: near its source, always green, always cool, always moist, comparatively free from frost in winter and from drought in summer.
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Always Comparitively Country Drought Green Margin Near Run Source Spring Summer Winter
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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Each Find Short Still Think Through Too

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