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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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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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The art of the bird is to conceal its nest both as to position and as to material, but now and then it is betrayed into weaving into its structure showy and bizarre bits of this or that, which give its secret away and which seem to violate all the traditions of its kind.
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Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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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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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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The secret of happiness is something to do.
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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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The key is always to speak in your own voice. Speak the truth. That’s Acting 101. Then you start putting layers on top of that.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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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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If one gains an interest in the history of the earth, he is quite sure to gain an interest in the history of the life on the earth. If the former illustrates the theory of development, so must the latter.
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