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England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.

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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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A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying.
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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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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.
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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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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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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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When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and the horse is cured of his fright at the robe, or the meal-bag, or other object, as soon as he can be induced to smell it.
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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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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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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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How many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives, and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!
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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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Sometimes I am worried by the thought of the effect that life in the city will have on coming generations.
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We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend it.
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Like tens of thousands of others, I have been a spectator of, rather than a participator in, the activities – political, commercial, sociological, scientific – of the times in which I have lived.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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Agile Chipmunk Fly Flyer Ground Helpless Less Proper Sense Squirrel

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