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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.

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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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All birds are incipient or would-be songsters in the spring. I find corroborative evidence of this even in the crowing of the cock.
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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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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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