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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.

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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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You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
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Always Divine Near Power Source Think True
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Father God Must Nature Now Our Use Word
The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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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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Abstract Comoextion Concrete Doctrine Each Man Matter Origin People Quality Revolution Sure
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
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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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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After Catch Depress Fish Left Low Place Report Shore Vision Write
Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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Crave Lover Nature Observe Unadulterated Unsweetened
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
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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Both Favorite Fortunate Life Lucky Seem Star Tide Under
How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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