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To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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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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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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