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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.
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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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Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.
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Why, we have invented the whole machinery of the supernatural, with its unseen spirits and powers, good and bad, to account for things, because we found the universal everyday nature too cheap, too common, too vulgar.
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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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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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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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The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds.
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There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.
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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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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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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 go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.
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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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The distribution of plants in a given locality is not more marked and defined than that of the birds. Show a botanist a landscape, and he will tell you where to look for the lady’s-slipper, the columbine, or the harebell.
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