One of the most graceful of warriors is the robin. I know few prettier sights than two males challenging and curveting about each other upon the grass in early spring. Their attentions to each other are so courteous and restrained.
JOHN BURROUGHSWhy, 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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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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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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If you think you can do it, you can.
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Not so the oven-bird, or the other birds that walk, as the cow-bunting, or the quail, or the crow. They move the head forward with the movement of the feet.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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It seems to me that evolution adds greatly to the wonder of life because it takes it out of the realm of the arbitrary, the exceptional, and links it to the sequence of natural causation.
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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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Summer is more wooing and seductive, more versatile and human, appeals to the affections and the sentiments, and fosters inquiry and the art impulse.
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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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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature.
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