A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
JOHN BURROUGHSThe love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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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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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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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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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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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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