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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.

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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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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 city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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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 geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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