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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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I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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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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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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Blessed is the man who has some congenial work, some occupation in which he can put his heart, and which affords a complete outlet to all the forces there are in him.
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To 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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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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 feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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