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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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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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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.
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Always Anything Currency Gold Have Love Must One Patience Pay Price Promise Real Sacrifice Service Work Worth
The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
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No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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Where country life is safe and enjoyable, where many of the conveniences and appliances of the town are joined to the large freedom and large benefits of the country, a high state of civilization prevails.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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