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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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Active Army Campaign Continue Depleted Hazardous Life Like Swarm Rank Recruit
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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Air Element Enough Exhilarating Find Morning Refresh Universal Walk Water
Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Born Made Naturalist Observation Pain Poet Stack Year
Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage till he has established communication with the soil by the loving and magnetic touch of his soles to it.
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Carriage Communication Establish Feel House Love Magnetic Man More Plant Potted Soil Sole Take Root Touch
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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Aspiration Book Experience Father Knew Much Peculalr Religious Seal
The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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Business Can City Each Fight Live Money One Other Overreach Place
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
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All Drawn Easy Men More Nail Rivet Some Very
I have thought that a good test of civilization, perhaps one of the best, is country life.
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Benefit Cicilivzation Country Enjoy Good Perhaps Prevail Safe Test
Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.
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Botany Delight Dull Most People Perennial School Study Taught Young
To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death.
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Again Body Death Fierce Human Insect Many Other Prototype Soul Struggle Together
I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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Attend Feeling Funeral History Museum Nature Seldom
Secluded waters of some pool or lakelet, are the crown and summit of the floral expeditions of summer.
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Crown Expedition Floral Lakelet Pool Secluded Some Summer Summit Water
To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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Civilization Country Help Keep Must Preserve Supply Wish
The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Animal Attachment Back Bird Distance Find Home Instinct Remove Strong Treat
If you think you can do it, you can.
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Can Do IT Think You

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