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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

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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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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment.
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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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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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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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On the same principles, the ornithologist will direct you where to look for the greenlets, the wood-sparrow, or the chewink.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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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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