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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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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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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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I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.
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The homing instinct in birds and animals is one of their most remarkable traits: their strong local attachments and their skill in finding their way back when removed to a distance.
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Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.
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Nature teaches more than she preaches.
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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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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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I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head.
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Naturalists, like poets, are born and then made only by years of painstaking observation.
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Most people were shocked by the thought; it was intensely repugnant to their feelings.
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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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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