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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.

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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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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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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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It seems at times as if they possessed some extra sense – the home sense – which operates unerringly.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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 naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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