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The city, a place to which one goes to do business, is a place where men overreach each other in the fight for money. But it is not a place in which one can live.
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We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune.
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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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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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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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To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.
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I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think.
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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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Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness.
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The naturist must see all things in the light of his experiences in this world.
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Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
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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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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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Whitman will always be a strange and unwonted figure among his country’s poets, and among English poets generally: a cropping out again, after so many centuries, of the old bardic prophetic strain.
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The birth of a baby and the blooming of a flower are natural events, but the laboratory methods forever fail to give us the key to the secret of either.
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