The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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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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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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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Living in the city is a discordant thing, an unnatural thing.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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To me, nothing else about a tree is so remarkable as the extreme delicacy of the mechanism by which it grows and lives.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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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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I find that something one gets from Emerson in early life does not leave him when he grows old.
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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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To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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In October, a maple tree before your window lights up your room like a great lamp. Even on cloudy days, its presence helps to dispel the gloom.
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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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