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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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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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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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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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