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For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice – no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The common bees will never use their sting upon the queen; if she is to be disposed of, they starve her to death, and the queen herself will sting nothing but royalty, nothing but a rival queen.
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We now use the word ‘nature’ very much as our fathers used the word ‘God.’
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Writing is reporting what we saw after the vision has left us. It is catching the fish which the tide has left far up on our shores in the low and depressed places.
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One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
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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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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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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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