The love of nature is a different thing from the love of science, though the two may go together.
JOHN BURROUGHSIf you think you can do it, you can.
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The feminine character, the feminine perceptions, intuitions, delicacy, sympathy, quickness, are more responsive to natural forms and influences than is the masculine mind.
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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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A sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter. It is the fruit of the equal marriage of the sun and frost.
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To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds.
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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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One may summon his philosophy when they are beaten in battle, not till then.
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The geologist is pretty sure to be an evolutionist.
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In winter, the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.
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Even in rugged Scotland, nature is scarcely wilder than a mountain sheep, certainly a good way short of the ferity of the moose and caribou.
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Our flying squirrel is in no proper sense a flyer. On the ground, he is more helpless than a chipmunk, because less agile. He can only sail or slide down a steep incline from the top of one tree to the foot of another.
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The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense is his life, large-brained, large-lunged, hot, ecstatic, his frame charged with buoyancy and his heart with song.
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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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The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
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The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.
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Whitman was Emerson translated from the abstract into the concrete.
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