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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.

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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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Always Anything Currency Gold Have Love Must One Patience Pay Price Promise Real Sacrifice Service Work Worth
To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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Confine Music Nature Sound Strong Susceptive Sweet
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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Absorb Agency Animal Food Gorge Litle Mass Molecule Nourish Power Seize Vegetable World
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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After All Begin Bought Main Money Real Sold Thing Value
The secret of happiness is something to do.
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Do Happiness Secret Something
We are really here to be happy and to make others happy.
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Happy Make Other Really
The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Chimney Draught Draw Happy Movement Open Something
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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Barn Common Dignify Field Grain Guilty Larceny More Offence Petty Red Squirrel
There is something very human in this apparent mirth and mockery of the squirrels. It seems to be a sort of ironical laughter, and implies self-conscious pride and exultation in the laughter.
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Apparent Conscious Execution Human Ironical Laugh Pride Self Something Sort Squirrels
Some scenes you juggle two balls, some scenes you juggle three balls, some scenes you can juggle five balls.
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Ball Five Juggle Scene Some Three
To be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.
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Bird Elate Life might Nest Reward Simple Spring Thrill Wildflower
I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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Heal Nature Order Put Sense Soothed
I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Discover Either Hand Happiness Head Secret Work
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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Affirmative Always Believe Deny Easier Mind Nature
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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Affection Appeal Art Foster Human Impulse Inquiry Seductive Sentiment Summer Versatile Wooing
All the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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All Book Friend Read See Walk Want
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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Again Body Death Fierce Human Insect Many Other Prototype Soul Struggle Together
To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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Learn New Path Something Took Yesterday
The human body is a steed that goes freest and longest under a light rider, and the lightest of all riders is a cheerful heart.
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Body Cheerful Freest Heart Highest Human Little Longest Ride Steed Under
I went to the Lake District to see what kind of a country it could be that would produce a Wordsworth.
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Country District Lake Produce See Wordsworth
August is the month of the high-sailing hawks. The hen hawk is the most noticeable. He likes the haze and calm of these long, warm days. He is a bird of leisure and seems always at his ease. How beautiful and majestic are his movements!
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August Beautiful Calm Ease Hawk Hen High Leisure Majestic Month Most Movement Noticeable Sail
As with other phases of nature, I have probably loved the rocks more than I have studied them.
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Nature Other Phase Probably Rock Study
The life of a swarm of bees is like an active and hazardous campaign of an army: the ranks are being continually depleted and continually recruited.
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Active Army Campaign Continue Depleted Hazardous Life Like Swarm Rank Recruit
Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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Begin End Great Infinite Know Nothing Small Space Time
To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings – travels in warm climes.
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Being Clime Firtunnate Human Life Many Mean Northern Sleep Travel Warm Winter
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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Aspiration Flight Free Holiday Human Live Many Poet Realize Song Suggestion
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences were to me.
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Aspiration Book Experience Father Knew Much Peculalr Religious Seal

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