Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
JOHN BURROUGHSHow many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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Most birds are very stiff-necked, like the robin, and as they run or hop upon the ground, carry the head as if it were riveted to the body.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.
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The pond-lily is a star and easily takes the first place among lilies; and the expeditions to her haunts, and the gathering her where she rocks upon the dark.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Every species of tree-squirrel seems to be capable of a sort of rudimentary flying, at least of making itself into a parachute, so as to ease or break a fall or a leap from a great height.
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The queen, I say, is the mother bee; it is undoubtedly complimenting her to call her a queen and invest her with regal authority, yet she is a superb creature and looks every inch a queen.
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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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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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I am for 100 per cent Americanism, 100 per cent efficiency, and 100 per cent life. I expect to live to be 100 years old.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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