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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
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Man has climbed up from some lower animal form, but he has, as it were, pulled the ladder up after him.
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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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The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
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My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me.
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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 seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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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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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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The fine, hair-like rootlets at the bottom and the microscopical cells of the leaves at the top.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.
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Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.
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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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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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There is hardly a man on earth who will take advice unless he is certain that it is positively bad.
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The building of cities and towns, the cutting down of forests, and the draining of pools and swamps have deprived American birds of their original homes and food supply.
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The Nature Lover is not looking for mere facts but for meanings, for something he can translate into terms of his own life.
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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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There is a great deal of speculation in the eye of an animal, but very little science.
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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness. It is work.
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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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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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