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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.

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There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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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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Cattle Cured Each Fright Herd Horse Induce Object One Satisfied Smell Sniff Soon
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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Deceptive Difficult Distant Great Lure Opportunity
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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Chalk Clay Country Granite Marble Marl
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
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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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
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
Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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Break Doubtless Ease Fall Fly Great Height Make Reason Rudimentary Squirrel
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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Equal Frost Fruit Goodbye Marriage Run Sap Sun Sweet Winter
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
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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