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Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
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The animal world seizes its food in masses little and big, and often gorges itself with it, but the vegetable, through the agency of the solvent power of water, absorbs its nourishment molecule by molecule.
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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.
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My motto is never to try to imitate anybody: I have always looked inward and followed the inward voice.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them.
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We are beginning to see that money, after all, is not the main thing. The real values cannot be bought and sold.
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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.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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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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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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How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.
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