If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
JOHN BURROUGHSI have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
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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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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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If you think you can do it, you can.
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He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.
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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
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A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.
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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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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 building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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