The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHSTo regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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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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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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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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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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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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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 spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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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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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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