The trunk of a tree is like a community where only one generation at a time is engaged in active business, the great mass of the population being retired and adding solidity and permanence to the social organism.
JOHN BURROUGHSIt is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter.
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It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
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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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A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
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Leap, and the net will appear.
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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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Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
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Unadulterated, unsweetened observations are what the real nature-lover craves. No man can invent incidents and traits as interesting as the reality.
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If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
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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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The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.
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The Infinite cannot be measured. The plan of Nature is so immense, but she has no plan, no scheme, but to go on and on forever. What is size, what is time, distance, to the Infinite?
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Joy in the universe, and keen curiosity about it all – that has been my religion.
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.
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Women are about the best lovers of nature, after all; at least of nature in her milder and more familiar forms.
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