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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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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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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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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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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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