When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
JOHN BURROUGHSWe are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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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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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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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 human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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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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More than any other poet, Whitman is what we make him; more than any other poet, his greatest value is in what he suggests and implies rather than in what he portrays, and more than any other poet must he wait to be understood by the growth of the taste of himself.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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Emerson’s fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books he gave to the world.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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