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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’

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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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 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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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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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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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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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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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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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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